The Top 100 Animated Series: 100-76 | Part 2 – The 15th Anniversary Countdown

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This is Neil Ross, and you are listening to the

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Geekcast Radio Network. It’s time. The countdown

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begins. The Geekcast Radio Network Top 100 Animated

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Series Countdown! Hello and welcome to The Geekcast

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Radio Network’s Top 100 Animated Series 15th

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Anniversary 2026 Edition. I’m your host, Steve

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Megatron, and joining me in this animated foray

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are TFG and Mike. Hello. And Optimus Solo. This

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year’s countdown is shaping up to be possibly

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the most unpredictable one we’ve ever assembled

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based on our intro episode alone. With over 40

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submissions, new tunes, and a wider age demographic

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than any previous list, well, the results are

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going to be anything but predictable. Some shows

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that didn’t get a single vote last time, suddenly

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gone, while others that were present on the old

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nostalgic list… barely cracked the top 100

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by hitting the 110 to 101 range this time around.

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So with all of these new contenders, fresh perspectives,

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and let’s be honest, more than a few potential

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upsets waiting to happen, and a lot of probably

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upset nerds in the comment section, including

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those on the panel, the combination of longtime

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fans, new voices, and even a bit of celebrity

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input means that this list is going to hit deep.

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surprise more often, and spark more debate than

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ever before. So trust us if you think you know

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what’s coming and taking the number one spot.

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You really don’t. Obviously coming from someone

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who hasn’t even seen the list yet. So with that,

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take it away, Optimus Solo. Yes, that’s a perfect

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intro to what we have in store. I do want to

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peel back the curtain just a little bit here

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at the beginning. I guess it’s a little inside

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baseball or whatever phrase you want to use.

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but obviously folks can’t see us. This is not

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a video version. And even if they could see us,

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they would not be able to see my screen. And

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I just want to give people a little bit of information

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on what I’m looking at, just because it may get

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me out of trouble. If I’m ever like stumbling

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over my words or fumbling through things or this,

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that, and the other. And I also want to talk

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about something that I’m not going to do this

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time around that we have done in previous top

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100s, just because you’ll understand why in a

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minute. So I have. multiple screens open here

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i have uh multiple excel database sheets and

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spreadsheets i have some internet pages open

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not so much that it’s going to bog down the record

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or anything like that but i got a lot of stuff

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open and the main sheet that i’m looking at consists

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of a lot of information so i have the top 100

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list right so i have the numbers that we’re going

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to reveal here 100 through 76 i have the show

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names I have how many points they garnered. I

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have how many lists they appeared on. I have

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how much they increased or decreased their spot

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from 15 years ago, or if they were even on the

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list or got votes 15 years ago. I have the average

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that it got ranked. If you take just the people

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that voted for it, what it would have averaged

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just based on those lists. I also have… what

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spot it was on the last list. I have what company

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produced it. I have what channel it aired on.

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I have what year it debuted. I have how many

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episodes it was on, how many awards it got nominated

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for, how many of the nine lists that we kind

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of looked as we were trying to pressure test

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this they exist on. Then I have some sub -rankings

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of like each time period, each channel, each

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production company as it breaks down just for

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this set of 25. He’s a baseball statistician

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for all stuff. And so we’ll be given a lot of

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information out over the course. And one thing

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that I’ve done in the past that we’re not going

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to do this time is I do not, the one piece of

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information I do not have, I’m sorry. It’s just

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not something I wanted to take on is in the past,

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especially like the first time we did this round,

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I knew exactly where every contributor had each

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show ranked. Okay. So I could say like, You know,

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Steve and Mike and myself had this in the 20s.

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Such and such was the highest rank. They had

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this at 13, et cetera, et cetera. There’s 44

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people. I don’t have that. It’s not worth it.

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Yeah, I do have if it showed up at number one

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on somebody’s list. And if so, how many people

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had it at number one? That’s as much as you’re

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going to get revealed from the contributors list.

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We can do more revealing of contributor stuff

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in the wrap up at the end. Yeah, that’s fine.

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That’s more than fine. I mean, sounds like you

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have an entire bat cave of Dark Knight screens

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in front of you. I could scroll over on my spreadsheet

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and then there’s the old top 100 list from 15

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years ago. And then there’s another chart that

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has just the new shows that made it this time

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that didn’t last time. Then there’s another chart

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that has the shows that were on it last time

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that aren’t on it this time. There’s a lot of

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stuff. You’re not even doing math in my head

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already hurts. That’s just one tab. There’s actually

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like six tabs on this spreadsheet. I’m not even

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going to go into the other ones. All right. So

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that’s what we have against us today. And we’re

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going to start with that first set of 25. So

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we’re going to reveal live on the record numbers

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100 through 76. Steve and Mike do not know what’s

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coming. So there will be live reactions. We should

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be somewhat better prepared than we were 15 years

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ago, like we said in the intro episode, because

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all of us know which shows were on the 264 nominee

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list. So it’s not like we’re going to get something

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completely out of left field that we’ve not discussed

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in the last six months while we did all of those

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nomination records or nomination reveal records.

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So there may be some things that still surprise

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them, but they’re not going to be something that’s

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like, hey, remember when we didn’t talk at all

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about this one show? Like, that’s not going to

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happen. And again, folks, I will say before we

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kick this off, if you have not listened to the

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nomination process episodes, please go listen

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to those. We put a lot of work into those because

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that’s part of this whole experiment this time

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around and how we did this. And to piggyback

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off of that, you’ll get more of our mentality

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and the thoughts behind the list by listening

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to those episodes. Exactly. And I will try to

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do my best for each show that comes up. Like

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we will have a multiple discussions, right? We

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will have the discussion come up of does it belong

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in the top 100 or not, especially more so in

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this episode and maybe the next episode. That’s

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when you usually get the conversations on does

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it belong or not. In the other episodes, when

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we start talking about not the top 50, those

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discussions usually go away. It’s no longer about

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do they belong or do they not? It’s about higher

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or do they belong lower? Yeah. So we will have

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those conversations, but I feel like I can at

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least try to play the role of giving the argument

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for why each of these 25, the argument that some

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people would make, the three of us might disagree.

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The three of us might say, we don’t think this

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one belongs, but I will at least try to give

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the, the rationale for why somebody would make

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a case for each of these shows. And then we’ll

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have to decide if we agree or disagree with it.

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The other thing I would like to point out is

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if, You’ve never listened to any of our top 100

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countdowns before. The intro episode is kind

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of a standard length. The wrap -up episode is

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kind of a standard length. But for these episode

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reveals, when we do these 25 shows, you might

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as well buckle up, get yourself something to

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drink, and sit back because we do spend some

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time on these. Yeah, we do. These 100 through

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76, 75 to… 51 50 to 26 and then especially

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25 to one number one i would say range from two

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hours 15 minutes to just over three hours 30

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minutes we’ll see what happens this time that’s

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just based on history and what how these have

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kind of gone right exactly all right well you

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also want to mention uh do you want to mention

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the fact that we have a numerous amount of ties

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here Or did you want to save that? We are going

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to have six ties over the course of the top 100,

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and half of those will come in today’s episode.

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So we’re going to try something different today

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and debate the placement of each of those on

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air. There’s three of us, so there should be

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an odd number of votes. So that means we can

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kind of pick and choose which ones get those

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specific spots. And if it’s a train wreck, I

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apologize, and we’ll call an audible for the

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next episode. Actually, we won’t have another

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tie until the top 50. We’ll have three in this

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episode, none in the second episode, and then

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we’ll have two in the top 50 episode and one

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in the top 25 episode. All right. So any questions

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or comments before we start revealing, Mike?

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Don’t think so. Steve? I don’t have any either.

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All right. Let’s get into it then. 100. Look

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at those clouds up there. They’re beautiful.

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And it’s a perfect day for a drive. Aw, Trixie,

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please stop talking. I’m trying to figure something

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out. Oh! He’s going over that cliff! 99. A battle

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for our planet’s survival was on, and young Rick

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Hunter found himself caught up in the war. All

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right. As we teased in the last episode, we are

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starting the entire countdown off with a tie.

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And I find this humorous because I can see which

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two shows are tied. And I think it’s going to

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be a fun little interesting debate on which one

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takes the 100 spot and which one takes the 99

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spot. But they are definitely related in a way.

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So the two shows that we need to debate right

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now on which one gets 100 and which one gets

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99, they both scored 762 points. One was on 13

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lists. The other was on 15 lists. One, we did

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not rank at all last time around, even though

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it was eligible. And one has fallen two spots

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from its original ranking 15 years ago. So it’s

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going from, well, or one, depending on how this

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tie breaks ends up, because it was 98 last time

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around, and it’s going to be either 99 or 100

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this time. So one of them is from 1967. The other

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is from 1985. We need to debate the merits and

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decide. The order for Speed Racer from 1967 and

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Robotech from 1985. So Speed Racer, I’ll just

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go quick and then I’ll let Steve and Mike decide

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on what they think of these two and in what order

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we should go in them. Speed Racer is obviously

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a very early anime entry into for the US audience.

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We’re talking about 1967. kind of like a gateway

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show to anime and it probably has a lot of historical

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merit maybe not as much like entertainment quality

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like overall goodness but historical importance

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robotech kind of introduced a different way it’s

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still anime you could still consider it a gateway

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anime show but what this did in the 1980s was

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kind of flip the script a little bit because

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not only was it also introducing anime to some

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folks but in a decade that was much more about

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serialized or not non -serialized content this

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was a serialized storytelling cartoon so up until

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that point we got you know episodes of the week

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and and there was not much continuity and robotech

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kind of did something different for the u .s

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audiences here in 1985 steve what do you think

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of the merits of these two and which one would

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you rank higher so i i remember watching these

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late at night as a as a young teenager and honestly

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like they they both have their own individual

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charm they both have their individual things

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that they kind of did for animation you know

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especially with speed racer being kind of that

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initial kind of jump into the you know the anime

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then you get the theme song you get the fact

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that you know the Mach 5 and you know just everything

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about that after a while I found Speed Racer

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to be very grating to watch the voice acting

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was fine the I mean it wasn’t stellar either

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but The characters were kind of annoying to some

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degree. They both share a very similar aesthetic

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as far as the people are concerned. Even though

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they’re 20 years apart. Although Robotech has

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more of that polished look. Kind of the look

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that they gave some of the later Transformers

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series that never made it over to America. And

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between the two… Speed Racer has that longevity

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that you kind of just know what it is and they

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tried to make a film of it and it was terrible.

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Robotech, as far as I can recall, they’ve only

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done animation with it. They’ve done some video

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games. They’ve tried to kind of do different

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things with it with different films, animated

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films. I honestly liked it just because we got…

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transforming you know kind of mechs that you’re

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able to have them pilot uh it’s a little bit

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darker it has i don’t know i i actually read

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some and i can’t remember them now but i read

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some robotech books like back when i was like

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11 or 12 and i just remember enjoying them so

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i i for me i’m gonna vote robotech as the superior

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show out of these two I understand that people

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are going to like one more than the other, but

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I honestly think that Robotech kind of has that.

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Even though it started in the 80s, it’s still,

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they’ve still released content even into the,

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you know, 20 teens and tried to bring it about

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with video games and card games and everything

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else. I think it’s interesting because I think,

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you know, like the Speed Racer, important versus

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enjoyable. And like you said, it’s, it can be

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great. And if you could like try to watch a bunch

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of it today, do you just like say, well, the

00:15:29.490 –> 00:15:32.169
important part outweighs it or does the, the,

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the lack of enjoyability that you get from watching

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it, bring it down. And then Robotech is kind

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of, I guess some people call it like a Frankenstein

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of, of a cartoon show because it is pretty much

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a combination of a lot of different things that

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was happening that kind of got brought together

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for a U S audience. So it’s interesting, but

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I, I think, you know, Mike, you mentioned in

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the intro episode that we might get some science

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fiction and some robot related stuff and things

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like that. And we’re starting exactly in that

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kind of space. So for you, how does it come down

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to Speed Racer and Robotech? So in the lead up

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to all of this, in our however many months long

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that it took us to plan this whole thing, to

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get where we are to today, R2, D2. huh uh i that’s

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the astromech at robotech yeah i know i watched

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a lot of stuff that i’ve never seen before and

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speed racer and robotech were two of the things

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that i had seen here there kind of thing i’ve

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seen them in past yeah i’ve never really i never

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really sought those out i it was just neither

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one of them were real like When you mentioned

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Speed Racer to me, I know what it is and I had

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seen what it was, but I’m more speed buggy than

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I am Speed Racer. I’m more sputtering speed buggy

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than I am Speed Racer. So I went and I because

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again, part of the part of this project for me

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was seeking out the stuff that I had never seen

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before or rewatching things and trying to. give

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them a better fair shake than i did the first

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time around 15 years ago i still hate family

00:17:22.170 –> 00:17:25.329
guy for the most part anyway i’ll forgive you

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yeah whatever anyway uh but yeah i i gotta go

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with robotech robotech was cooler it was more

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interesting even though it was going up against

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aliens It was still more interesting to me than

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Speed Racer. Robotech definitely fared better

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15 years ago. So like I said, last time we did

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this countdown, Robotech was at the number 98

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spot. Speed Racer may make the case for the biggest

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jump that we’re going to see in this entire countdown.

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Because Speed Racer 15 years ago came in at 349th

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place. Wow. And it now is climbing into what

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appears to be the 100th spot here because you

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two have both said Robotech, which is the way

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I would have gone as well. So we have Speed Racer

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at number 100. So from 349 to 100, and then Robotech

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goes from 98 to 99. So that is where we start

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today. One humongous jump and one change of one

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spot. Nice. We see both ends of the spectrum.

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It’s an interesting start. Let’s see where we

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go from here. 98. Daddy has a lot of work to

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do. Bye -bye. Full Metal Alchemist. Well, we’re

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not going to go too far, I guess, in one respect

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for our number 98. Although time period, we are

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jumping a little bit. So we went from 1967 with

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Speed Racer to 1985 with Robotech. And let’s

00:19:00.609 –> 00:19:05.359
go on into the 2000s, 2003 specifically. for

00:19:05.359 –> 00:19:09.579
this show that did not appear on the original

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countdown because it didn’t didn’t exist or barely

00:19:13.759 –> 00:19:16.700
existed at that point um and we’re gonna keep

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it though with the uh the theme of some anime

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to start off our countdown so let’s go with full

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metal alchemist for our number 98 spot now this

00:19:28.920 –> 00:19:32.039
is one that’s interesting because it’s also kind

00:19:32.039 –> 00:19:36.440
of a First foray into shows that have had multiple

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incarnations or variations or spinoffs or sequels,

00:19:40.079 –> 00:19:42.400
reboots, whatever you want to call it, which

00:19:42.400 –> 00:19:45.380
always brings up the discussion point as we go

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through these countdowns of when that happens.

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Is it harder for a show because you split your

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vote between some of the different versions of

00:19:54.140 –> 00:19:56.099
it and you only vote for one versus the others?

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Or how does that affect things? It’s kind of

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interesting when it comes to that. It is widely

00:20:00.579 –> 00:20:03.920
respected, though, in the world of anime. So,

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Mike, what do you think? We have three animes

00:20:05.900 –> 00:20:09.140
here in a row and we’re jumping decades at a

00:20:09.140 –> 00:20:11.180
time. So we’re at Fullmetal Alchemist here with

00:20:11.180 –> 00:20:16.759
number 98. I think this list is way more interesting

00:20:16.759 –> 00:20:19.119
at this point compared to the old one when it

00:20:19.119 –> 00:20:24.700
comes to the anime representation. I even though

00:20:24.700 –> 00:20:27.160
I already said so far that I tried going back

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and watching some of the stuff. Some of this

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stuff was hard for me to find on legal channels

00:20:33.740 –> 00:20:37.740
that I didn’t really have to purchase like or

00:20:37.740 –> 00:20:41.559
finding good quality versions of stuff like on

00:20:41.559 –> 00:20:45.019
YouTube and things like that. And I just never

00:20:45.019 –> 00:20:47.480
could get into Full Metal Alchemist. So I haven’t

00:20:47.480 –> 00:20:50.460
seen a lot of this show. Sorry. Also, our first

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entrance or entrance that originally debuted

00:20:52.940 –> 00:20:56.670
on Adult Swim, I think here in the US. Steve,

00:20:56.769 –> 00:20:59.369
from an anime standpoint, we already teased one

00:20:59.369 –> 00:21:02.009
of them in our introduction episode because Neon

00:21:02.009 –> 00:21:04.569
Genesis Evangelion has already fallen. It was

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107. Now we get Robotech Speed Racer and Full

00:21:07.650 –> 00:21:10.529
Metal. Is that a good sign for anime or a bad

00:21:10.529 –> 00:21:13.849
sign for anime? I mean, the fact that it made

00:21:13.849 –> 00:21:16.450
the list to begin with is a good thing for anime.

00:21:17.150 –> 00:21:22.180
Yes, this one is very critically acclaimed. as

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a manga series, as well as its iteration here.

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I wonder… I’m sure we’re going to get hate

00:21:32.140 –> 00:21:35.119
for this one, just because of the nature of it.

00:21:35.279 –> 00:21:41.839
I do know that it has a certain audience. It’s

00:21:41.839 –> 00:21:49.599
not one that I’ve put on my list, but it’s also

00:21:49.599 –> 00:21:53.140
not one that I… hated like outright just didn’t

00:21:53.140 –> 00:21:56.119
like it was just kind of one i i had to make

00:21:56.119 –> 00:21:58.119
a selection of which animes i was putting on

00:21:58.119 –> 00:22:00.359
there and it didn’t resonate as much with me

00:22:00.359 –> 00:22:03.940
as some other ones so it ended up not making

00:22:03.940 –> 00:22:07.519
the chopping block for me there but i i do know

00:22:07.519 –> 00:22:11.599
that this one is very much along the same lines

00:22:11.599 –> 00:22:13.940
of some of the shows i would have put on my list

00:22:13.940 –> 00:22:18.130
had other ones not been there yeah um Got the

00:22:18.130 –> 00:22:20.869
same kind of, you know, cheesy stuff, battles,

00:22:20.910 –> 00:22:24.650
magic. I mean, you’ve got, you’ve got all these

00:22:24.650 –> 00:22:29.309
different elements that, that kind of play into

00:22:29.309 –> 00:22:32.730
that. Um, it, it even, as far as like some of

00:22:32.730 –> 00:22:35.210
the, some of the notoriety has even beaten things

00:22:35.210 –> 00:22:37.190
like attack on Titan and some other stuff like

00:22:37.190 –> 00:22:41.509
that. So, um, and they also have it on Netflix.

00:22:42.410 –> 00:22:46.950
So if you’re trying to watch some of it, they

00:22:46.950 –> 00:22:49.730
have you know the the different uh they have

00:22:49.730 –> 00:22:54.450
five parts uh which are i believe like five episodes

00:22:54.450 –> 00:22:58.569
a piece or something or maybe more uh about 10

00:22:58.569 –> 00:23:00.950
episodes a piece per part so you’re looking at

00:23:00.950 –> 00:23:03.410
about like 50 episodes i had all three of these

00:23:03.410 –> 00:23:05.910
first shows ranked on my list all between numbers

00:23:05.910 –> 00:23:10.910
77 and 82 so i i understand why the argument

00:23:10.910 –> 00:23:14.609
exists for all of them and i i don’t think we

00:23:14.609 –> 00:23:18.819
can i think all of them couldn’t be debated too

00:23:18.819 –> 00:23:21.099
much about belonging or not. I think order and

00:23:21.099 –> 00:23:23.319
where they fall, that’ll be a different conversation

00:23:23.319 –> 00:23:25.859
we can have later. But yeah, interesting start

00:23:25.859 –> 00:23:27.779
to the countdown with our first three shows,

00:23:27.839 –> 00:23:31.000
all being anime. We are not going to go very

00:23:31.000 –> 00:23:35.460
far for the next one. 97. For over a thousand

00:23:35.460 –> 00:23:37.700
generations, the Jedi Knights were the guardians

00:23:37.700 –> 00:23:41.019
of peace and justice in the old Republic before

00:23:41.019 –> 00:23:45.599
the dark times, before the empire. All right.

00:23:45.839 –> 00:23:47.259
I might’ve teased you by thinking we were going

00:23:47.259 –> 00:23:48.940
to have another anime, but instead we’re going

00:23:48.940 –> 00:23:50.940
to stay in the year 2003. That’s what I meant

00:23:50.940 –> 00:23:53.579
by not going too far. Um, so with our number

00:23:53.579 –> 00:23:56.359
98 pick, we had our first adult swim show for

00:23:56.359 –> 00:23:58.839
our number 97 pick. We’re going to the world

00:23:58.839 –> 00:24:02.859
of cartoon network from 2003. You either are

00:24:02.859 –> 00:24:05.599
a fan of this show or you do not like it at all.

00:24:05.660 –> 00:24:07.579
I feel like it’s one extreme or the other. I

00:24:07.579 –> 00:24:09.259
don’t think there’s a lot of people in the middle.

00:24:09.720 –> 00:24:16.250
Our number 97 is the 2003 star Wars. Clone Wars.

00:24:16.470 –> 00:24:21.230
This would be the Tarkovsky one, not Star Wars

00:24:21.230 –> 00:24:23.970
The Clone Wars from 2008. This is Star Wars Clone

00:24:23.970 –> 00:24:32.289
Wars 2003. Yes. So this one actually fell quite

00:24:32.289 –> 00:24:37.470
a few spots from our last time. It fell 31 spots

00:24:37.470 –> 00:24:40.150
on the countdown. So it was somewhere in the

00:24:40.150 –> 00:24:42.630
60s, 15 years ago. It has dropped all the way

00:24:42.630 –> 00:24:45.819
down to number 97, almost off the list. entirely

00:24:45.819 –> 00:24:48.539
mike what do you think of star wars clone wars

00:24:48.539 –> 00:24:52.900
it was okay it was interesting at the time it

00:24:52.900 –> 00:25:00.940
was coming off the heels of attack of the it

00:25:00.940 –> 00:25:03.180
was in between attack of the clones and revenge

00:25:03.180 –> 00:25:06.799
of the sith so it was an interesting time period

00:25:06.799 –> 00:25:17.119
between 2002 and 2005 so It was a cool interest.

00:25:17.299 –> 00:25:20.720
Again, you’re talking about Genndy Tartakovsky,

00:25:20.839 –> 00:25:24.039
who didn’t do the Powerpuff Girls, or he did

00:25:24.039 –> 00:25:26.880
something else. I forget what else he did. He

00:25:26.880 –> 00:25:33.640
did Samurai Jack. Samurai Jack, yeah. Dexter,

00:25:33.720 –> 00:25:35.880
that’s what he did. Two Stupid Dogs, Dexter’s

00:25:35.880 –> 00:25:39.900
Lab. He did do the Powerpuff Girls. He did direct

00:25:39.900 –> 00:25:44.299
several of them. uh so guy was a staple of of

00:25:44.299 –> 00:25:46.640
cartoon network like the beginning of cartoon

00:25:46.640 –> 00:25:49.579
network so and he’s done other things like you

00:25:49.579 –> 00:25:52.779
know hotel transylvania the powerpuff girls uh

00:25:52.779 –> 00:25:55.599
he’s worked on batman the animated series yeah

00:25:55.599 –> 00:25:59.740
he’s the he’s one of the main reasons why i was

00:25:59.740 –> 00:26:01.359
not a fan of cartoon network in the beginning

00:26:01.359 –> 00:26:04.640
it was it was definitely an acquired taste at

00:26:04.640 –> 00:26:07.460
the beginning and i feel like you either loved

00:26:07.460 –> 00:26:11.420
his animation style or you didn’t yes and In

00:26:11.420 –> 00:26:14.799
some instances, it worked. In this particular

00:26:14.799 –> 00:26:18.460
instance, I don’t think so. But we at least got

00:26:18.460 –> 00:26:21.799
to keep the voice actors for when they actually

00:26:21.799 –> 00:26:26.400
brought it over as the Clone Wars. I have heard

00:26:26.400 –> 00:26:28.140
the argument out there from some people that

00:26:28.140 –> 00:26:30.039
say this is the coolest Star Wars ever looked.

00:26:30.180 –> 00:26:33.160
I am not in that camp, but I know there is a

00:26:33.160 –> 00:26:34.960
segment of the population that believes that.

00:26:36.009 –> 00:26:41.250
I think at the time, if we didn’t get the Clone

00:26:41.250 –> 00:26:47.750
Wars and everything the Clone Wars did, if we

00:26:47.750 –> 00:26:53.049
had only gotten this, it was at the time the

00:26:53.049 –> 00:26:59.069
coolest. Because before this, what did we have?

00:26:59.410 –> 00:27:01.230
I mean, we had the Ewoks and the droids in the

00:27:01.230 –> 00:27:06.069
80s. but that’s all we had yeah that’s all we

00:27:06.069 –> 00:27:08.849
had the star wars christmas special yeah that’s

00:27:08.849 –> 00:27:10.690
all that existed this also did introduce kind

00:27:10.690 –> 00:27:11.990
of that like mike i don’t know if it introduced

00:27:11.990 –> 00:27:14.210
it but uh it’s one of the first times i remember

00:27:14.210 –> 00:27:16.710
it i shouldn’t say it introduced it because this

00:27:16.710 –> 00:27:19.430
existed like in the early classic era but like

00:27:19.430 –> 00:27:22.230
from a cartoon that was coming out in this time

00:27:22.230 –> 00:27:24.470
period like the the micro episode format from

00:27:24.470 –> 00:27:26.990
a storytelling standpoint and things of that

00:27:26.990 –> 00:27:29.089
nature was kind of a an interesting take i’ll

00:27:29.089 –> 00:27:31.779
give it that much but Yeah, it was kind of a

00:27:31.779 –> 00:27:35.200
new foray into the world of animation for this

00:27:35.200 –> 00:27:42.019
franchise. Yeah, no, absolutely. And again, they

00:27:42.019 –> 00:27:45.880
had to do something. And literally, as I’m looking

00:27:45.880 –> 00:27:48.940
at the Wikipedia article, it begins shortly after

00:27:48.940 –> 00:27:51.700
Attack of the Clones. So literally, they were

00:27:51.700 –> 00:27:55.400
bridging the gap between Attack of the Clones

00:27:55.400 –> 00:27:59.519
and… Yes. I was going to say, however, it’s…

00:27:59.920 –> 00:28:04.980
not considered official canon no no no yeah yeah

00:28:04.980 –> 00:28:08.079
yeah no no i understand that i’m just saying

00:28:08.079 –> 00:28:11.779
going with the timeline of what star wars was

00:28:11.779 –> 00:28:16.880
doing at the time from 2002 to 2005 they had

00:28:16.880 –> 00:28:21.000
it’s similar it’s not as bad as the christmas

00:28:21.000 –> 00:28:26.029
special thank god uh but it’s similar to what

00:28:26.029 –> 00:28:29.269
the christmas special did between star wars and

00:28:29.269 –> 00:28:35.970
empire this is the bridge between phantom or

00:28:35.970 –> 00:28:38.789
not phantom attack of the clones and revenge

00:28:38.789 –> 00:28:42.170
of the sith i liked it i thought it was fun i

00:28:42.170 –> 00:28:45.750
like the clone wars much better speaking of that

00:28:45.750 –> 00:28:48.849
steve we are into a franchise here obviously

00:28:48.849 –> 00:28:52.150
with star wars if star wars Clone Wars comes

00:28:52.150 –> 00:28:54.690
in here at number 97. What is your guess for

00:28:54.690 –> 00:28:56.569
how many Star Wars shows we get in total on the

00:28:56.569 –> 00:29:01.670
entire countdown? Probably all of them. Okay.

00:29:01.769 –> 00:29:06.529
Because there’s three more. Three more prominent

00:29:06.529 –> 00:29:08.250
ones, I should say. There have been a couple

00:29:08.250 –> 00:29:10.369
other limited edition series, but I think there’s

00:29:10.369 –> 00:29:13.430
three other prominent ones. So I foresee a lot

00:29:13.430 –> 00:29:15.390
of them being on the list, but we’ll have to

00:29:15.390 –> 00:29:19.779
see. Well, let’s see where we go and what time

00:29:19.779 –> 00:29:21.279
period we go to next. We’re not going to stay

00:29:21.279 –> 00:29:25.119
in 2003. 96. This is Principal Brickley talking.

00:29:25.380 –> 00:29:27.980
I want to inform you all that I have a fat, saggy

00:29:27.980 –> 00:29:30.279
butt, which I like to scratch every hour on the

00:29:30.279 –> 00:29:32.799
out. Get ready. Into a decade we have not heard

00:29:32.799 –> 00:29:36.940
from yet. The 90s. So let’s go to something completely

00:29:36.940 –> 00:29:42.559
different. 1997 is the year this show drops 10

00:29:42.559 –> 00:29:47.299
spots from its previous. location on our countdown

00:29:47.299 –> 00:29:52.299
15 years ago coming in at 96 this time we’re

00:29:52.299 –> 00:29:54.240
going to go to the wonderful world of disney

00:29:54.240 –> 00:29:58.960
in a series that aired on abc originally this

00:29:58.960 –> 00:30:04.220
would be recess recess the playground politics

00:30:04.220 –> 00:30:09.180
universally loved childhood almost like sitcom

00:30:09.180 –> 00:30:14.099
for kids recess at number 96 mike you reacted

00:30:14.099 –> 00:30:18.059
first so i’ll let you go first i love this show

00:30:18.059 –> 00:30:24.539
this show is so funny uh this is one of those

00:30:24.539 –> 00:30:27.700
shows that i don’t hear a lot of people talking

00:30:27.700 –> 00:30:32.559
like you see fandoms and other things for a lot

00:30:32.559 –> 00:30:35.440
of shows and stuff i don’t see a lot of people

00:30:35.440 –> 00:30:40.490
talking about recess but recess uh basically

00:30:40.490 –> 00:30:43.089
about the lives of six different fourth graders

00:30:43.089 –> 00:30:50.970
uh just very very interesting very cool very

00:30:50.970 –> 00:30:58.309
fun uh and it was just an interesting time to

00:30:58.309 –> 00:31:02.390
to have a show like this because you know when

00:31:02.390 –> 00:31:05.049
we were all kids we were all going out to recess

00:31:05.049 –> 00:31:09.650
and whatever else because for me i was let’s

00:31:09.650 –> 00:31:12.609
see kindergarten to sixth grade i was that was

00:31:12.609 –> 00:31:21.150
85 to 92 so for me in fourth grade recess was

00:31:21.150 –> 00:31:25.710
not as wild as this show is it was wild but it

00:31:25.710 –> 00:31:31.069
wasn’t this wild um but like you you think about

00:31:31.069 –> 00:31:36.589
all the all the ideas in the world in the 90s

00:31:36.589 –> 00:31:42.230
that that that a creator could come up with hey

00:31:42.230 –> 00:31:46.250
let’s do a show about recess and i know it’s

00:31:46.250 –> 00:31:48.210
not on the countdown and that’s more than fine

00:31:48.210 –> 00:31:52.130
same thing with film or film wars on you know

00:31:52.130 –> 00:31:54.569
school safety patrol who in the hell would do

00:31:54.569 –> 00:31:58.769
a cartoon show anyway but it’s you know same

00:31:58.769 –> 00:32:01.950
concept like i love shows like that and this

00:32:01.950 –> 00:32:04.109
is you know recess just absolutely love this

00:32:04.109 –> 00:32:08.000
show wow i can’t believe it went down This is

00:32:08.000 –> 00:32:10.740
the, I mean, as we talked about in the introductory

00:32:10.740 –> 00:32:13.519
episode, like some shows we’re going to have

00:32:13.519 –> 00:32:15.440
to either get bounced from the countdown or go

00:32:15.440 –> 00:32:18.019
down or just how far they would fall. And out

00:32:18.019 –> 00:32:19.619
of all the movement that we’re going to see in

00:32:19.619 –> 00:32:21.819
today’s episode, obviously we’re going to have

00:32:21.819 –> 00:32:24.359
a big chunk of the not ranked before list. We

00:32:24.359 –> 00:32:27.119
said that there was 27 shows that are added this

00:32:27.119 –> 00:32:28.900
time around that weren’t ranked last time. We’re

00:32:28.900 –> 00:32:31.180
going to have just under half of those are going

00:32:31.180 –> 00:32:33.960
to show up in today’s episode. And the shows

00:32:33.960 –> 00:32:37.250
that were ranked last time. Every single one

00:32:37.250 –> 00:32:41.109
of them that we talk about today will have fallen

00:32:41.109 –> 00:32:44.349
down except for two. There’s only two shows that

00:32:44.349 –> 00:32:45.549
we’re going to talk about that we had ranked

00:32:45.549 –> 00:32:47.789
last time that are ranked higher this time. So

00:32:47.789 –> 00:32:50.049
we’ll get to those here in a little bit. The

00:32:50.049 –> 00:32:52.730
craziest thing about recess to me is that it

00:32:52.730 –> 00:32:55.670
took until 1997 for someone to do this. Yeah,

00:32:55.690 –> 00:32:57.750
really? Don’t you think it would have been done

00:32:57.750 –> 00:33:00.109
way earlier? Yeah, it’s like a great concept.

00:33:00.170 –> 00:33:01.609
It’s a great idea. It’s got to be one that it

00:33:01.609 –> 00:33:03.150
came out and people are like, why didn’t we do

00:33:03.150 –> 00:33:05.079
that earlier? Yeah, why didn’t we do that earlier?

00:33:05.720 –> 00:33:08.160
Before Steve goes and gives his thoughts, the

00:33:08.160 –> 00:33:10.599
one thing I will say is, and I’m going to say

00:33:10.599 –> 00:33:12.839
it now so I don’t have to repeat, repeat, repeat

00:33:12.839 –> 00:33:16.880
myself later. Half the shows that we end up revealing

00:33:16.880 –> 00:33:20.460
on our countdown here. I’m going to say this

00:33:20.460 –> 00:33:22.359
now so I don’t have to repeat this in other episodes.

00:33:22.420 –> 00:33:25.359
I guarantee you, as long as they’re on any streaming

00:33:25.359 –> 00:33:27.140
service, they’re probably going to end up on

00:33:27.140 –> 00:33:30.099
ToonCast. Because all the episodes of Recess

00:33:30.099 –> 00:33:33.299
are currently on Disney Plus in the U .S. And

00:33:33.299 –> 00:33:36.000
I guarantee you, I’m going to cover Recess on

00:33:36.000 –> 00:33:40.039
ToonCast at some point this year. We’re just

00:33:40.039 –> 00:33:41.640
trying to create more content for Mike to do.

00:33:41.720 –> 00:33:43.880
So it’s what we do here. Steve, what are your

00:33:43.880 –> 00:33:47.950
thoughts on Recess? I remember watching this

00:33:47.950 –> 00:33:52.170
on the one Saturday morning that Disney used

00:33:52.170 –> 00:33:55.750
to have. And honestly, I really enjoyed it. It

00:33:55.750 –> 00:34:00.109
was fun. It kind of played to that younger kid.

00:34:00.230 –> 00:34:03.509
I mean, I wasn’t that age anymore, but at the

00:34:03.509 –> 00:34:05.890
same time, I could relate and I found it entertaining.

00:34:06.630 –> 00:34:10.409
I didn’t watch it through its entire 65 episode

00:34:10.409 –> 00:34:13.860
run. but I did catch episodes here and there

00:34:13.860 –> 00:34:16.119
when I would watch Saturday morning cartoons,

00:34:16.559 –> 00:34:22.420
uh, cause it would be on like ABC. And I, I found

00:34:22.420 –> 00:34:24.860
that the dynamic between the friends kind of

00:34:24.860 –> 00:34:26.960
interesting, you know, you had all the different

00:34:26.960 –> 00:34:30.840
stereotypes in there. You had the, uh, the crazy,

00:34:30.940 –> 00:34:37.460
uh, security guard teacher, uh, Randall. Yeah.

00:34:37.559 –> 00:34:44.239
Well, not just Randall, the, The lady is my God,

00:34:44.340 –> 00:34:46.260
what was her name? I butcher in the names because

00:34:46.260 –> 00:34:49.820
I don’t remember any of the names. I just I remember

00:34:49.820 –> 00:34:54.340
watching the show and genuinely in a spinster.

00:34:54.500 –> 00:34:58.219
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I remember genuinely enjoying

00:34:58.219 –> 00:35:01.440
it, though. It kind of gave me a different parallel

00:35:01.440 –> 00:35:04.420
to like a Simpsons, but it’s more like more grounded

00:35:04.420 –> 00:35:08.289
in situations you might see. Or like the dynamics

00:35:08.289 –> 00:35:10.909
of the playground. You know, the sixth grader

00:35:10.909 –> 00:35:14.309
is the king of the playground and things like

00:35:14.309 –> 00:35:16.969
that. So it was just, I don’t know, it was kind

00:35:16.969 –> 00:35:19.190
of fresh and different. So it was enough to catch

00:35:19.190 –> 00:35:22.989
my interest at that point. Yeah, I think it’s

00:35:22.989 –> 00:35:25.349
a show that gets a lot of love. It was nominated

00:35:25.349 –> 00:35:29.909
for at least 10 awards that we looked at. So

00:35:29.909 –> 00:35:32.670
it’s got some critical acclaim there as well.

00:35:32.789 –> 00:35:35.960
So we went from anime to anime to anime. And

00:35:35.960 –> 00:35:40.659
then we went from 2003 to 2003. And now we’re

00:35:40.659 –> 00:35:43.519
going to go from Disney to another Disney show.

00:35:46.280 –> 00:35:50.139
95. There aren’t any gummy bears now, but they

00:35:50.139 –> 00:35:52.760
used to exist. Everyone knows that. Everyone

00:35:52.760 –> 00:35:55.219
knows that. Everyone knows they’re just fairy

00:35:55.219 –> 00:36:01.260
tales. All right. Number 95. A Disney show, but

00:36:01.260 –> 00:36:04.809
not from the 90s. And actually, for the second

00:36:04.809 –> 00:36:06.349
time this countdown, we’re going to have a second

00:36:06.349 –> 00:36:09.090
year represented. So we had two 2003 shows, and

00:36:09.090 –> 00:36:10.949
now this is going to be our second show from

00:36:10.949 –> 00:36:14.570
1985. And a lot of people will call this kind

00:36:14.570 –> 00:36:17.969
of a foundational show for Disney, maybe a precursor

00:36:17.969 –> 00:36:21.869
to the Disney afternoon. Our number 95 pick dropped

00:36:21.869 –> 00:36:25.030
18 slots in the last 15 years, but still made

00:36:25.030 –> 00:36:27.090
the countdown. We’re talking about Disney’s Adventures

00:36:27.090 –> 00:36:29.610
of the Gummy Bears, one of the best theme songs.

00:36:30.460 –> 00:36:33.139
ever created for a cartoon if you don’t believe

00:36:33.139 –> 00:36:36.780
me go listen to it it’s just i always have it

00:36:36.780 –> 00:36:39.760
in my top five all -time theme songs but um it’s

00:36:39.760 –> 00:36:42.599
also one of those uh serialized kids storytelling

00:36:42.599 –> 00:36:46.880
shows that existed that was kind of not commonplace

00:36:46.880 –> 00:36:50.300
in the 80s i’m a big fan of this one i had it

00:36:50.300 –> 00:36:53.860
ranked in my 60s on my list um i just think that

00:36:53.860 –> 00:36:57.380
this is from a disney standpoint yes there was

00:36:57.380 –> 00:37:01.250
a Prior to this, but this one was so crucial

00:37:01.250 –> 00:37:04.630
in getting us to everything that Disney did in

00:37:04.630 –> 00:37:07.750
the late 80s, early 90s. So I think it has a

00:37:07.750 –> 00:37:11.050
lot of influential aspects going that you could

00:37:11.050 –> 00:37:13.469
give it some props for and reasons for why it

00:37:13.469 –> 00:37:15.989
should be on the list for that point. From a

00:37:15.989 –> 00:37:19.150
quality standpoint, overall, do you compare it

00:37:19.150 –> 00:37:20.929
to some of the other Disney shows that come later?

00:37:21.050 –> 00:37:23.230
Maybe not, but I think just for its impact and

00:37:23.230 –> 00:37:26.090
influential. aspects that it deserves a spot

00:37:26.090 –> 00:37:27.889
on the list so i’m happy it’s even though it

00:37:27.889 –> 00:37:30.329
dropped 18 spots i’m happy that it stayed here

00:37:30.329 –> 00:37:32.230
mike what do you think of disney’s adventures

00:37:32.230 –> 00:37:35.170
of the gummy bears love this show this show’s

00:37:35.170 –> 00:37:39.130
amazing and because of the last show that we

00:37:39.130 –> 00:37:45.510
just revealed in this show uh miss finster was

00:37:45.510 –> 00:37:50.460
voiced by april winchell Her father plays Zummy

00:37:50.460 –> 00:37:52.960
Gummy. Paul Winchell plays Zummy. Connections

00:37:52.960 –> 00:37:57.840
all over the place. Yep. But no, Adventures of

00:37:57.840 –> 00:38:02.760
the Gummy Bears. Oh, man. Absolutely love, love

00:38:02.760 –> 00:38:08.900
this show. This show was so cool. This is one

00:38:08.900 –> 00:38:13.010
of the cartoon shows that just… Was so original

00:38:13.010 –> 00:38:17.070
that lets you just escape. It was kind of an

00:38:17.070 –> 00:38:20.329
Arthurian legend, but it really wasn’t. It was

00:38:20.329 –> 00:38:22.389
kind of an offshoot of the Arthurian legend.

00:38:22.929 –> 00:38:28.969
And it just lets you, like I said, escape. And

00:38:28.969 –> 00:38:33.690
it was so cool. It was so fun. You know, you

00:38:33.690 –> 00:38:37.769
got June Foray as Grammy Gummy. You got Lorenzo

00:38:37.769 –> 00:38:42.519
Music as Tummy. And such a great voice cast in

00:38:42.519 –> 00:38:46.280
this and the adventures they would go on. The

00:38:46.280 –> 00:38:50.719
ogres fighting them and fighting the Duke and

00:38:50.719 –> 00:38:54.380
saving Princess Kala and all that. Just it’s

00:38:54.380 –> 00:38:57.760
so good. Steve, what do you think of the Adventures

00:38:57.760 –> 00:39:04.860
of the Gummy Bears? I like the theme song. He’s

00:39:04.860 –> 00:39:07.519
never seen it. No, I’ve seen it because I gave

00:39:07.519 –> 00:39:12.159
every show a shot. that went into our 264 pounds,

00:39:12.460 –> 00:39:18.980
I didn’t really care for it. I found, and I get

00:39:18.980 –> 00:39:21.900
it, it’s probably the fact that I wasn’t raised

00:39:21.900 –> 00:39:25.539
on it is why it doesn’t resonate. And I would

00:39:25.539 –> 00:39:27.860
argue that’s probably the same reason why Speed

00:39:27.860 –> 00:39:30.440
Racer didn’t resonate with me. It’s because,

00:39:30.519 –> 00:39:33.579
again, I wasn’t raised with it. It was just something

00:39:33.579 –> 00:39:36.610
I caught. when it was on and i didn’t have the

00:39:36.610 –> 00:39:38.670
disney channel when i was a kid so if it wasn’t

00:39:38.670 –> 00:39:42.369
on abc i didn’t see it until much much later

00:39:42.369 –> 00:39:45.690
so i don’t necessarily have the nostalgia for

00:39:45.690 –> 00:39:49.829
it to enjoy it the way that like you guys do

00:39:49.829 –> 00:39:53.329
so yeah um yeah that’s that’s why for me like

00:39:53.329 –> 00:39:55.110
it’s not as much about the quality of the overall

00:39:55.110 –> 00:39:56.869
show like i think it’s kind of hit or miss with

00:39:56.869 –> 00:40:00.250
some of the things i think for me i i the reason

00:40:00.250 –> 00:40:02.510
i have it on my list is more about the impact

00:40:02.510 –> 00:40:06.260
that it had on on the disney animation vehicle

00:40:06.260 –> 00:40:10.980
i watch this all the time i mean i feel like

00:40:10.980 –> 00:40:12.960
if this isn’t successful we don’t get some of

00:40:12.960 –> 00:40:15.320
the shows that i’m sure will come up later well

00:40:15.320 –> 00:40:18.039
and it was good as far as the animation like

00:40:18.039 –> 00:40:21.280
that there were i mean and that’s something disney’s

00:40:21.280 –> 00:40:24.219
pretty much always been stellar at is like one

00:40:24.219 –> 00:40:26.699
up in their game with the animation some other

00:40:26.699 –> 00:40:30.800
studios had similar situations but like overall

00:40:30.800 –> 00:40:33.139
like disney constantly was one -upping throughout

00:40:33.139 –> 00:40:38.400
the 80s through to the 90s yeah and i mean this

00:40:38.400 –> 00:40:42.380
show it’s the animation it’s the music it’s the

00:40:42.380 –> 00:40:46.420
voice cast it’s also the storytelling the start

00:40:46.420 –> 00:40:51.260
like i don’t remember if it had serialized or

00:40:51.260 –> 00:40:53.380
if they were episodic yeah they were serialized

00:40:53.380 –> 00:40:56.039
was wasn’t most of it serialized because it’s

00:40:56.039 –> 00:40:58.699
been a while since i’ve gone back and watched

00:40:58.699 –> 00:41:01.400
every episode i’ve gone back and watched episodes

00:41:01.400 –> 00:41:04.280
here or there it might not be heavily serialized

00:41:04.280 –> 00:41:06.820
but it is serialized but some of it is okay yeah

00:41:06.820 –> 00:41:13.860
uh but just man like every time i did watch this

00:41:13.860 –> 00:41:16.460
show because i remember having the original dvd

00:41:16.460 –> 00:41:20.500
set when i came out i went nuts i was like stalking

00:41:20.500 –> 00:41:22.719
best buy like when is it coming out when is it

00:41:22.719 –> 00:41:25.420
coming because back then when the dvd set came

00:41:25.420 –> 00:41:28.860
out it was like tv shows on dvd .com which isn’t

00:41:28.860 –> 00:41:31.239
available anymore and everything else and all

00:41:31.239 –> 00:41:33.920
this and all that because i actually i think

00:41:33.920 –> 00:41:36.019
i have a youtube video on my youtube channel

00:41:36.019 –> 00:41:39.820
about getting the dvd set and whatever else just

00:41:39.820 –> 00:41:41.900
absolutely love adventures the gummy bears it’s

00:41:41.900 –> 00:41:44.480
so good this is one of many shows that will come

00:41:44.480 –> 00:41:46.400
up over the curse of this countdown that i own

00:41:46.400 –> 00:41:49.599
uh the complete series of on dvd as well so yeah

00:41:49.599 –> 00:41:53.219
all right so we have seen some anime we’ve seen

00:41:53.219 –> 00:41:56.260
an entrance from lucasfilm with the clone with

00:41:56.510 –> 00:41:59.329
Clone Wars, seen a couple of Disney shows. Let’s

00:41:59.329 –> 00:42:09.849
hear from a new production company next. I say

00:42:09.849 –> 00:42:17.010
new production company, but I guess it’s kind

00:42:17.010 –> 00:42:20.190
of old as well because this one’s from 1961 and

00:42:20.190 –> 00:42:22.969
it’s going to come in at number 94 this time

00:42:22.969 –> 00:42:26.400
around. It was not ranked. in our top 115 years

00:42:26.400 –> 00:42:28.199
ago even though it was definitely eligible since

00:42:28.199 –> 00:42:33.199
it came out in 1961 so it has risen from 166th

00:42:33.199 –> 00:42:38.440
place all the way up to 94th it will be a our

00:42:38.440 –> 00:42:42.360
first entrant from the production company known

00:42:42.360 –> 00:42:47.380
as hannah barbara originally aired on abc we’re

00:42:47.380 –> 00:42:52.239
talking about top cat so the interesting part

00:42:52.670 –> 00:42:55.090
about Top Cat. I was doing some research on this

00:42:55.090 –> 00:42:59.309
in the days and whatnot leading up to this. I

00:42:59.309 –> 00:43:03.230
didn’t realize how popular this show is internationally.

00:43:04.349 –> 00:43:07.429
It’s not as big in the US as it is internationally,

00:43:07.570 –> 00:43:10.630
especially in Latin America. For some reason,

00:43:10.690 –> 00:43:13.369
Top Cat is a big hit there, but obviously one

00:43:13.369 –> 00:43:16.210
of the more well -known characters from Hanna

00:43:16.210 –> 00:43:19.250
-Barbera’s catalog, but it didn’t make our list

00:43:19.250 –> 00:43:21.030
last time. It does this time. Mike, what are

00:43:21.030 –> 00:43:25.289
your thoughts? I forgot it didn’t make the list

00:43:25.289 –> 00:43:30.670
last time. I thought it would have. I love Top

00:43:30.670 –> 00:43:33.849
Cat. I love Benny. I love them all. Hanna -Barbera

00:43:33.849 –> 00:43:35.869
didn’t get as much love as I had anticipated

00:43:35.869 –> 00:43:38.510
last time around. I will say that much. Yeah.

00:43:40.150 –> 00:43:44.030
The adventures of Top Cat, Benny the Ball, Choo

00:43:44.030 –> 00:43:50.070
Choo, Brain, Spook, and all of them. Just so

00:43:50.070 –> 00:43:56.840
good. Top cat was one of the, like, he was one

00:43:56.840 –> 00:43:59.699
of the ultimate schemers. He really, really was

00:43:59.699 –> 00:44:05.300
like, it was so good. Do you think it’s worthy

00:44:05.300 –> 00:44:07.099
of being top 100, even though we did not put

00:44:07.099 –> 00:44:09.699
it on there last time? Oh yeah, absolutely. This

00:44:09.699 –> 00:44:13.360
show is so good. It’s so fun because you, so

00:44:13.360 –> 00:44:18.159
let’s see. Trying to see top cat versus Garfield.

00:44:18.519 –> 00:44:21.559
What’s the comparison. The comparison would be

00:44:21.559 –> 00:44:25.780
Top Cat is trying to get away with schemes away

00:44:25.780 –> 00:44:28.880
from what’s the… I would say Top Cat is way

00:44:28.880 –> 00:44:31.260
more comparable to Heathcliff than it is Garfield.

00:44:31.559 –> 00:44:42.440
Okay, well, Officer Charlie Dibble. But who does

00:44:42.440 –> 00:44:45.280
Heathcliff have? No, I’m just saying Heathcliff

00:44:45.280 –> 00:44:47.920
is like a group of street cats that is trying

00:44:47.920 –> 00:44:50.380
to go around, and that’s kind of what Top Cat

00:44:50.380 –> 00:44:53.519
is, whereas Garfield is just a house cat. Yeah,

00:44:53.579 –> 00:45:00.179
okay, fine. So Heathcliff versus Top Cat. I was

00:45:00.179 –> 00:45:02.639
trying to compare Top Cat to Garfield, where

00:45:02.639 –> 00:45:07.579
Top Cat has Officer Dibble and Garfield has John.

00:45:08.699 –> 00:45:11.219
Garfield’s always trying to get the lasagna kind

00:45:11.219 –> 00:45:14.309
of thing. I see where you’re going with that.

00:45:14.389 –> 00:45:18.530
Yeah. So, you know, Top Cat’s always trying to

00:45:18.530 –> 00:45:20.530
do schemes, and he’s always trying to get this

00:45:20.530 –> 00:45:23.230
and get that and whatever else. And I always

00:45:23.230 –> 00:45:25.650
thought Heathcliff was just trying to do mischief

00:45:25.650 –> 00:45:31.889
just to do mischief. He was. Yeah. Top Cat, you

00:45:31.889 –> 00:45:34.670
know, they always, they were more of a, like,

00:45:34.789 –> 00:45:37.889
honestly, and I know this is really sad, but

00:45:37.889 –> 00:45:41.780
excuse me for being a sheltered white kid. in

00:45:41.780 –> 00:45:46.119
southeast massachusetts in the 80s but top cat’s

00:45:46.119 –> 00:45:50.400
gang was the first gang i ever saw on tv sorry

00:45:50.400 –> 00:45:56.679
uh but like he him and his that that’s why officer

00:45:56.679 –> 00:45:58.980
dibble was always after him you know they’re

00:45:58.980 –> 00:46:01.079
always you know getting schemes i don’t know

00:46:01.079 –> 00:46:05.280
i just i liked top cat he was he was always you

00:46:05.280 –> 00:46:09.900
know that that cat that just always you know

00:46:09.900 –> 00:46:15.679
had to I don’t know. Top Cat did not make my

00:46:15.679 –> 00:46:19.239
list. I respect Top Cat as far as a Hanna -Barbera

00:46:19.239 –> 00:46:22.340
character and a classic cartoon character. I

00:46:22.340 –> 00:46:24.199
just didn’t quite have enough room. I had some

00:46:24.199 –> 00:46:25.940
other Hanna -Barbera shows that I ranked instead.

00:46:26.119 –> 00:46:30.659
But from an influence or kind of pop culture

00:46:30.659 –> 00:46:32.739
standpoint, he has appeared in a lot of stuff.

00:46:32.880 –> 00:46:35.659
So Top Cat and his gang or members of his gang

00:46:35.659 –> 00:46:37.920
appeared in Yogi’s Art Clark, appeared in Yogi’s

00:46:37.920 –> 00:46:40.750
Treasure Hunt. appeared in wake rattle and roll

00:46:40.750 –> 00:46:43.449
harvey birdman attorney at law the powerpuff

00:46:43.449 –> 00:46:46.869
girls foster’s home for imaginary friends futurama

00:46:46.869 –> 00:46:50.829
jellystone teen titans go and how about this

00:46:50.829 –> 00:46:53.289
mike which i guess solidifies my comparison top

00:46:53.289 –> 00:46:56.130
cat and his gang appeared in the march 10th 2016

00:46:56.130 –> 00:47:00.510
strip of heathcliff So there is a crossover,

00:47:00.690 –> 00:47:02.489
I guess, from that standpoint. I didn’t realize

00:47:02.489 –> 00:47:05.389
how popular it was internationally and things

00:47:05.389 –> 00:47:07.389
of that nature. So I had other Hanna -Barbera

00:47:07.389 –> 00:47:09.969
characters on my list, not Top Cap, but I’m not

00:47:09.969 –> 00:47:12.170
saying he’s not necessarily worthy. Steve, what

00:47:12.170 –> 00:47:15.289
do you think? So I actually did not list this

00:47:15.289 –> 00:47:17.250
show on my list. I actually went in favor of

00:47:17.250 –> 00:47:22.449
Heathcliff. And it’s funny because I was kind

00:47:22.449 –> 00:47:25.130
of torn between the two. Like I wanted to list

00:47:25.130 –> 00:47:28.460
them both, but I had other. uh series that i

00:47:28.460 –> 00:47:31.039
was trying to include both old and new and other

00:47:31.039 –> 00:47:33.280
hannah barbarian series that i felt like were

00:47:33.280 –> 00:47:39.780
more enjoyable to watch um and some of them i

00:47:39.780 –> 00:47:42.780
had on my list because i mean it would be like

00:47:42.780 –> 00:47:46.920
sacrilegious to not have them so i had to sacrifice

00:47:46.920 –> 00:47:49.000
somewhere and top cat unfortunately was one of

00:47:49.000 –> 00:47:51.320
them however i did really enjoy this cartoon

00:47:51.320 –> 00:47:54.710
uh yeah For me, it was kind of neck and neck

00:47:54.710 –> 00:47:59.050
between Top Cat and Heathcliff. Top Cat was more.

00:48:01.050 –> 00:48:04.510
You’re smooth talking kind of almost had like

00:48:04.510 –> 00:48:08.650
an urban sitcom. Yeah, I mean, he had all these

00:48:08.650 –> 00:48:10.570
different scams and all these other things, but

00:48:10.570 –> 00:48:16.030
it was more like he was. It was very sitcom ish,

00:48:16.030 –> 00:48:22.750
but he also had. like this this different presence

00:48:22.750 –> 00:48:25.070
with himself like he wasn’t trying to get into

00:48:25.070 –> 00:48:28.849
trouble but he was trying to make you know trying

00:48:28.849 –> 00:48:31.710
to get into trouble yeah he’s trying to make

00:48:31.710 –> 00:48:34.210
trouble yeah yeah whereas heathcliff is like

00:48:34.210 –> 00:48:38.849
everything he’s doing is trouble you know it

00:48:38.849 –> 00:48:42.070
was like taking garfield but mixing him with

00:48:42.070 –> 00:48:45.119
top cat and you get heathcliff Yeah, I think

00:48:45.119 –> 00:48:46.860
their two characters are different. I think where

00:48:46.860 –> 00:48:49.500
I see the similarities is the Cadillac Cats that

00:48:49.500 –> 00:48:51.780
followed Heathcliff compared to Top Cat’s gang.

00:48:52.360 –> 00:48:54.880
Correct. Is like kind of the similarity. And

00:48:54.880 –> 00:48:57.679
I feel like that’s where Heathcliff got better

00:48:57.679 –> 00:49:01.679
was with the Cadillac Cats. Yes. And I feel like

00:49:01.679 –> 00:49:04.159
Top Cat, you know, his his gang. I mean, it very

00:49:04.159 –> 00:49:07.199
much looks like a Hanna -Barbera show. Like you’ve

00:49:07.199 –> 00:49:09.780
got a lot of Flintstones cues right in there

00:49:09.780 –> 00:49:11.559
and Jetsons cues like right in the animation

00:49:11.559 –> 00:49:14.780
style, which is not a bad thing. It just. It

00:49:14.780 –> 00:49:19.099
makes it, I think, more familiar and more readily

00:49:19.099 –> 00:49:22.480
to be accepted because it shares a similar style

00:49:22.480 –> 00:49:25.119
to those two series. And so therefore, I feel

00:49:25.119 –> 00:49:28.340
like it got adopted better. Steve, I have one

00:49:28.340 –> 00:49:31.019
other question somewhat unrelated to Top Cat

00:49:31.019 –> 00:49:33.059
itself, but kind of more about our list overall.

00:49:33.539 –> 00:49:37.320
So we had Speed Racer, which is a 1967 show that

00:49:37.320 –> 00:49:41.869
rose from 349th to 100th. We had Top Cat that

00:49:41.869 –> 00:49:45.989
rose from 166th to 94th. That was from 1961.

00:49:47.150 –> 00:49:50.469
Does this speak to a theme that we will see throughout

00:49:50.469 –> 00:49:54.489
the rest of the countdown on our wider range

00:49:54.489 –> 00:49:57.989
of age demographics that are included in our

00:49:57.989 –> 00:50:00.289
contributors? Or do you think it’s just a few

00:50:00.289 –> 00:50:02.030
shows like that that just got more love over

00:50:02.030 –> 00:50:06.429
time? I think it’s both. I think a lot of it

00:50:06.429 –> 00:50:10.539
is like we’ve got… a different age range a

00:50:10.539 –> 00:50:12.619
lot of us have gotten older and seen a lot more

00:50:12.619 –> 00:50:17.300
stuff and then you know those of us that you

00:50:17.300 –> 00:50:19.460
know have kids have introduced them to some of

00:50:19.460 –> 00:50:22.739
these series and so i mean i feel like there’s

00:50:22.739 –> 00:50:24.679
that i feel like there’s age too that’s kind

00:50:24.679 –> 00:50:29.659
of hit some of us and uh it made us enjoy things

00:50:29.659 –> 00:50:32.880
differently than we once did and so giving shows

00:50:32.880 –> 00:50:34.800
a shot that may not have had it the first time

00:50:34.800 –> 00:50:40.739
around so i’m I’m pleasantly surprised to see

00:50:40.739 –> 00:50:43.480
that shows that didn’t make it the first time

00:50:43.480 –> 00:50:46.739
around are making it or making it into the top

00:50:46.739 –> 00:50:50.039
100 to begin with. But then again, we’ve had

00:50:50.039 –> 00:50:55.500
other shows that missed it by that much and were

00:50:55.500 –> 00:51:00.480
on the original list. And so Neon Genesis Evangelion

00:51:00.480 –> 00:51:04.300
was 99 in the old list. It’s 107 this time. magic

00:51:04.300 –> 00:51:06.860
school bus was 89 last time it’s 102 this time

00:51:06.860 –> 00:51:09.320
so like some of them have flip -flopped and it’s

00:51:09.320 –> 00:51:12.139
not just been a minor flip -flop like those have

00:51:12.139 –> 00:51:14.840
been a minor flip -flop i mean with top cat and

00:51:14.840 –> 00:51:17.260
speed racer specifically it was a huge flip -flop

00:51:17.260 –> 00:51:19.760
yeah yeah we’ll have to kind of track that as

00:51:19.760 –> 00:51:22.239
we go to to see if that trend continues with

00:51:22.239 –> 00:51:23.719
some of the older shows or if it’s just kind

00:51:23.719 –> 00:51:26.340
of random shows across the block that have just

00:51:26.340 –> 00:51:29.760
uh maybe aged more gracefully i guess over the

00:51:29.760 –> 00:51:33.679
last 15 years so We’re international flavor a

00:51:33.679 –> 00:51:35.059
little bit with Top Cat with its popularity.

00:51:35.260 –> 00:51:38.739
Let’s go to one that was literally produced internationally.

00:51:39.599 –> 00:51:42.320
93. Where can we get a rasher of bacon five yards

00:51:42.320 –> 00:51:50.260
long? The ferocious Tibetan butter. Oh, no. All

00:51:50.260 –> 00:51:54.579
right. For our number 93, for us in the U .S.,

00:51:54.579 –> 00:51:57.780
we first saw this show on, first time I’ve mentioned

00:51:57.780 –> 00:52:01.039
this on today’s countdown, on Nickelodeon. is

00:52:01.039 –> 00:52:04.679
where we first saw this back in 1981, and I am

00:52:04.679 –> 00:52:07.760
ecstatic that this show has remained on the countdown.

00:52:08.219 –> 00:52:15.039
It dropped from number 69 to 93, and it was in

00:52:15.039 –> 00:52:16.719
danger, I guess, of falling out of the countdown

00:52:16.719 –> 00:52:19.360
completely, and I’m so happy that it didn’t because

00:52:19.360 –> 00:52:22.480
I think this one is criminally underrated because

00:52:22.480 –> 00:52:28.630
most of it is super popular more in the UK. I

00:52:28.630 –> 00:52:30.530
think it’s probably one of the top five, top

00:52:30.530 –> 00:52:33.170
10 shows in the UK all time, and it doesn’t get

00:52:33.170 –> 00:52:36.130
that same attention here in the US. So I’m ecstatic

00:52:36.130 –> 00:52:38.849
that Danger Mouse has come in here at number

00:52:38.849 –> 00:52:42.690
93 from Cosgrove Hall. Like I said, it came over

00:52:42.690 –> 00:52:45.929
to us on Nickelodeon, and I think it deserves

00:52:45.929 –> 00:52:49.389
all the love. So Danger Mouse, number 93. Mike,

00:52:49.489 –> 00:52:50.909
you thought it was something else, but it’s Danger

00:52:50.909 –> 00:52:53.929
Mouse. Yeah, for a minute there, I was getting

00:52:53.929 –> 00:52:56.769
scared. I’m like, oh my God, if he mentions that

00:52:56.769 –> 00:53:00.360
one that I hate. I said 1981, so that should

00:53:00.360 –> 00:53:03.300
have been a clue for you. Yeah, I know. But I

00:53:03.300 –> 00:53:06.460
forgot when that other evil thing came out. Thank

00:53:06.460 –> 00:53:09.719
God. Yeah, Danger Mouse. Absolutely. Best show

00:53:09.719 –> 00:53:13.619
ever. Mike just went straight to best show ever.

00:53:13.679 –> 00:53:15.059
I guess we can close up the countdown, Steve.

00:53:15.199 –> 00:53:17.599
We don’t need to do any more of this. He’s already

00:53:17.599 –> 00:53:20.719
crowned it top show ever. Well, no, I said best

00:53:20.719 –> 00:53:23.780
show ever. No, I absolutely love Danger Mouse.

00:53:23.880 –> 00:53:26.440
I grew up watching Danger Mouse. It was so cool.

00:53:26.519 –> 00:53:30.239
It was so fun. Absolutely love that. I think

00:53:30.239 –> 00:53:31.659
it would have been easy for this one to slip

00:53:31.659 –> 00:53:34.099
out since we didn’t have a big UK conglomerate

00:53:34.099 –> 00:53:37.000
and our contributors. So that’s why I’m happy

00:53:37.000 –> 00:53:40.980
that it remained. It was on 14 lists. It was

00:53:40.980 –> 00:53:42.699
out of the I haven’t mentioned this yet today,

00:53:42.780 –> 00:53:44.670
but we. We talked about different lists that

00:53:44.670 –> 00:53:46.269
we looked at as we were trying to come up with

00:53:46.269 –> 00:53:48.409
our nominees, right? Like we had our own list.

00:53:48.550 –> 00:53:50.449
We had our own thoughts. We did a lot of pressure

00:53:50.449 –> 00:53:52.650
tests. We also looked at a variety of lists just

00:53:52.650 –> 00:53:54.090
to see if we had missed anything. And I looked

00:53:54.090 –> 00:53:57.269
at the original PCAST radio list. We looked at

00:53:57.269 –> 00:54:00.309
the IGN list. We looked at a list from Wizard,

00:54:00.570 –> 00:54:02.750
from TV Guide, from Digital Dream Door, Channel

00:54:02.750 –> 00:54:04.949
4, IndieWire, Ranker, and a couple other ones.

00:54:05.329 –> 00:54:09.409
And this show actually appeared on five of those

00:54:09.409 –> 00:54:11.409
lists, which is more than any show we’ve talked

00:54:11.409 –> 00:54:13.960
about so far today. So it does have some universal

00:54:13.960 –> 00:54:16.480
praise when it comes into the more critic circles,

00:54:16.699 –> 00:54:19.559
but I feel like the majority of audiences may

00:54:19.559 –> 00:54:22.440
not have been exposed to Danger Mouse because

00:54:22.440 –> 00:54:25.059
of when it came out and because of it not being

00:54:25.059 –> 00:54:29.280
a U .S. cartoon. And if you didn’t have Nickelodeon,

00:54:29.340 –> 00:54:31.559
maybe you didn’t have a way to watch it. But

00:54:31.559 –> 00:54:34.719
like I said, it flung to its spot within our

00:54:34.719 –> 00:54:36.739
top 100, and that makes me happy. Steve, have

00:54:36.739 –> 00:54:39.980
you had any exposure to Danger Mouse? Yeah, actually.

00:54:41.280 –> 00:54:45.280
And no, I’m not talking about the new one. I

00:54:45.280 –> 00:54:47.599
have seen bits and pieces of the new one, but

00:54:47.599 –> 00:54:53.159
no. The old one, it had its own particular charm

00:54:53.159 –> 00:54:58.800
to it. I love the song, the theme. I think I

00:54:58.800 –> 00:55:02.059
love theme songs for old animated shows just

00:55:02.059 –> 00:55:06.360
because nowadays we don’t get that kind of awesomeness.

00:55:06.599 –> 00:55:13.599
The 80s and 90s were, quite frankly, Cartoon

00:55:13.599 –> 00:55:16.840
theme heaven. Yeah. Yeah. I couldn’t think of

00:55:16.840 –> 00:55:21.780
the right word, but that that fits. So. I think

00:55:21.780 –> 00:55:23.460
that this is really cool. This kind of fits along

00:55:23.460 –> 00:55:25.579
with like your secret squirrel. A lot of the

00:55:25.579 –> 00:55:27.320
other type of shows that they kind of fit into

00:55:27.320 –> 00:55:34.179
this realm. This one did also create a. Follow

00:55:34.179 –> 00:55:37.079
up or spinoff series and, you know, Count Ducula.

00:55:37.460 –> 00:55:39.920
Yeah. Which was interesting on its own right,

00:55:39.960 –> 00:55:43.230
too. I don’t remember what year the reboot came

00:55:43.230 –> 00:55:48.130
out. It was within the last 10 years or so. It

00:55:48.130 –> 00:55:53.269
was Boulder Media that did some of it. It’s been

00:55:53.269 –> 00:55:58.610
passed around. They did it from 2015 to 2019.

00:56:00.289 –> 00:56:02.150
I think I’ve seen bits and pieces of the new

00:56:02.150 –> 00:56:03.989
one as well, but not as much to make a judgment

00:56:03.989 –> 00:56:07.989
on it. I’m not always huge on all British humor.

00:56:08.429 –> 00:56:11.889
But the British humor in this specific cartoon,

00:56:12.070 –> 00:56:14.449
similar to Count Ducula, just really worked for

00:56:14.449 –> 00:56:18.090
me. And it kind of feels like a cartoon, almost

00:56:18.090 –> 00:56:23.010
like Spy vs. Spy or 007 type thing. Yeah, and

00:56:23.010 –> 00:56:26.329
it definitely reminds you of the type of… Obviously,

00:56:26.329 –> 00:56:29.710
Nickelodeon in our time period was more well

00:56:29.710 –> 00:56:31.929
-known for game shows and more well -known for

00:56:31.929 –> 00:56:35.170
probably its live action in the early days. I

00:56:35.170 –> 00:56:37.539
know they did more… cartoons later on but like

00:56:37.539 –> 00:56:39.800
in the beginning it was much more about you know

00:56:39.800 –> 00:56:43.860
snick and and game shows and things of that nature

00:56:43.860 –> 00:56:46.000
there wasn’t a ton of cartoon stuff but this

00:56:46.000 –> 00:56:50.039
is very like symbolic of the type of animation

00:56:50.039 –> 00:56:55.260
that existed they they like to do some more non

00:56:55.260 –> 00:56:57.920
-traditional a little bit more off the beaten

00:56:57.920 –> 00:57:00.460
path animation and some of their even some of

00:57:00.460 –> 00:57:02.159
their other shows so this fit right in with like

00:57:02.159 –> 00:57:06.659
early nickelodeon to me Yeah, exactly. Yeah.

00:57:06.980 –> 00:57:09.039
I don’t know how much of a player Nickelodeon

00:57:09.039 –> 00:57:10.719
will be on this countdown. It’ll have to be something

00:57:10.719 –> 00:57:13.440
we track. Like I said, I may not be the first

00:57:13.440 –> 00:57:15.000
place you think of when you think of animated

00:57:15.000 –> 00:57:16.800
series, but we’ll have to see how many entrants

00:57:16.800 –> 00:57:19.679
come from the world of Nickelodeon over the course

00:57:19.679 –> 00:57:24.380
of this countdown. Yep. Right. So we were at

00:57:24.380 –> 00:57:26.940
Hanna -Barbera a second ago. Let’s go back there

00:57:26.940 –> 00:57:31.630
next. 92. Their mission to fight injustice, to

00:57:31.630 –> 00:57:34.889
right that which is wrong, and to serve all mankind.

00:57:36.690 –> 00:57:41.070
All right, for our number 92, we go back to Hanna

00:57:41.070 –> 00:57:43.090
-Barbera and another show that originally debuted

00:57:43.090 –> 00:57:47.730
on ABC. This one has dropped more than any show

00:57:47.730 –> 00:57:51.349
that we have talked about today. It was ranked

00:57:51.349 –> 00:57:56.889
40 last time. It falls to 92. this time so a

00:57:56.889 –> 00:58:01.170
drop of 52 places for the conglomerate known

00:58:01.170 –> 00:58:05.469
as super friends which debuted in the 70s so

00:58:05.469 –> 00:58:07.750
we had this 40 in our top 50 last time at number

00:58:07.750 –> 00:58:10.570
40 it drops all the way down to 92 i know in

00:58:10.570 –> 00:58:13.210
the nominee episodes we talked about this one

00:58:13.210 –> 00:58:16.670
specifically and if it was one that we had kind

00:58:16.670 –> 00:58:19.349
of targeted that could potentially fall all the

00:58:19.349 –> 00:58:22.250
way out of our top 100 it did not quite do that

00:58:22.250 –> 00:58:25.210
it made it to 92 start with you this time steve

00:58:25.519 –> 00:58:27.719
What do you think of Super Friends coming in

00:58:27.719 –> 00:58:31.000
here? Obviously, another one that, similar to

00:58:31.000 –> 00:58:34.760
Speed Racer, is it more important, culturally

00:58:34.760 –> 00:58:38.179
impactful, or influential to the genre versus

00:58:38.179 –> 00:58:41.059
good quality? Kind of like we talked about with

00:58:41.059 –> 00:58:43.139
Speed Racer, or where do you kind of land with

00:58:43.139 –> 00:58:47.000
Super Friends? I’m kind of torn because a lot

00:58:47.000 –> 00:58:52.219
of these old animated series were pretty hokey.

00:58:52.519 –> 00:58:57.190
I don’t know. it’s it’s to me it’s almost like

00:58:57.190 –> 00:58:59.949
it’s better than like Star Trek the animated

00:58:59.949 –> 00:59:04.690
series but it’s not great compared to what we

00:59:04.690 –> 00:59:06.650
got in the 90s I feel like we got spoiled in

00:59:06.650 –> 00:59:09.969
the 90s like we got quality like good writing

00:59:09.969 –> 00:59:13.110
good voice acting good animation like just all

00:59:13.110 –> 00:59:16.530
the way around it was good this I mean it works

00:59:16.530 –> 00:59:19.449
for the time but I don’t know if it necessarily

00:59:19.449 –> 00:59:22.329
translates to now to anything anybody’s gonna

00:59:22.329 –> 00:59:25.550
watch outside of us that kind of grew up with

00:59:25.550 –> 00:59:30.250
it or saw it on rerun somewhere or you know have

00:59:30.250 –> 00:59:32.070
the nostalgia for it I don’t I don’t see this

00:59:32.070 –> 00:59:35.349
one having the longevity of it so I can definitely

00:59:35.349 –> 00:59:39.510
see why it jumped this high in the list like

00:59:39.510 –> 00:59:41.929
I personally did not rank this one this time

00:59:41.929 –> 00:59:44.670
I don’t remember what I ranked last time but

00:59:44.670 –> 00:59:48.469
I I’m I’m pretty sure that I didn’t rank it either

00:59:48.469 –> 00:59:52.530
at that point so I’ve actually recently watched

00:59:52.530 –> 00:59:55.559
all I haven’t watched the obviously this had

00:59:55.559 –> 00:59:57.280
some like different titles for different seasons

00:59:57.280 –> 00:59:59.920
so can i run down those really quick since i’m

00:59:59.920 –> 01:00:01.940
i’m looking right at him if you must if you must

01:00:01.940 –> 01:00:06.500
all right so 1973 we had super friends in 77

01:00:06.500 –> 01:00:09.460
we had the all -new super friends hour in 78

01:00:09.460 –> 01:00:13.059
we had challenge of the super friends in 79 the

01:00:13.059 –> 01:00:16.760
world’s greatest super friends in 80 to 83 super

01:00:16.760 –> 01:00:22.070
friends And then in 84, Super Friends, the Legendary

01:00:22.070 –> 01:00:25.150
Superpowers Show. And then 85, the Galactic Guardians

01:00:25.150 –> 01:00:30.309
Superpowers Team. So those are everything under

01:00:30.309 –> 01:00:32.809
the banner. I have recently watched, in the last

01:00:32.809 –> 01:00:35.610
two years, I’ve watched all of the 80s episodes

01:00:35.610 –> 01:00:38.110
that appeared in all the different incarnations.

01:00:38.110 –> 01:00:41.530
So I’ve seen everything that aired in 1980 through

01:00:41.530 –> 01:00:44.429
the end of the run for this show. And there is

01:00:44.429 –> 01:00:47.010
some that is much better than others. I will

01:00:47.010 –> 01:00:49.579
get that. Like not all of it holds up to the

01:00:49.579 –> 01:00:51.800
same quality. And there’s definitely some seasons,

01:00:51.920 –> 01:00:54.340
quote unquote, that are better substantially

01:00:54.340 –> 01:00:58.139
than others. I think the reason I still kept

01:00:58.139 –> 01:01:01.019
this on mine, I had this ranked number 86, I

01:01:01.019 –> 01:01:02.900
believe, or somewhere in there. So I don’t think

01:01:02.900 –> 01:01:04.679
it belonged in the top 50 like we had it last

01:01:04.679 –> 01:01:07.539
time, but I still gave it a vote. And I think

01:01:07.539 –> 01:01:12.300
more so because this introduced DC heroes to

01:01:12.300 –> 01:01:16.610
like an entire couple generations of. like mass

01:01:16.610 –> 01:01:21.190
audiences and so to me how many people that watched

01:01:21.190 –> 01:01:25.849
a version of super friends then grew up to be

01:01:25.849 –> 01:01:31.530
involved in the dc universe whether it be in

01:01:31.530 –> 01:01:34.369
comic form or whether it be the sub -subsequential

01:01:34.369 –> 01:01:38.300
like series that we get like I feel like, you

01:01:38.300 –> 01:01:39.719
know, a lot of them had to have watched that.

01:01:39.760 –> 01:01:41.460
Maybe that was their introduction from an animation

01:01:41.460 –> 01:01:44.039
standpoint. And then we go on to get stuff like

01:01:44.039 –> 01:01:45.719
Batman, the animated series, Superman, the animated

01:01:45.719 –> 01:01:48.039
series, et cetera, et cetera. So like, I can’t

01:01:48.039 –> 01:01:52.139
downplay like that it adds some impact, but I

01:01:52.139 –> 01:01:54.880
do see the argument similar to speed racer that

01:01:54.880 –> 01:01:59.099
do you weigh impact or influence over overall

01:01:59.099 –> 01:02:01.219
quality? And like, where do you fall on that

01:02:01.219 –> 01:02:03.579
debate? So I can see both sides. So Mike, what

01:02:03.579 –> 01:02:07.019
do you think? Well, here’s the thing. A lot of

01:02:07.019 –> 01:02:11.099
people that, like Bruce Timm and Paul Dini and

01:02:11.099 –> 01:02:13.780
a lot of those guys that went on to create Batman

01:02:13.780 –> 01:02:17.219
the Animated Series and the entirety of the DCAU

01:02:17.219 –> 01:02:21.420
cartoons that we got in the 90s, they grew up

01:02:21.420 –> 01:02:25.340
on Super Friends, the first one in 1973. And

01:02:25.340 –> 01:02:30.480
in that voice cast, you have two of the very

01:02:30.480 –> 01:02:34.840
most important people. which are Olan Sol, who

01:02:34.840 –> 01:02:38.980
voices Batman, and Casey Kasem, who voices Robin.

01:02:40.039 –> 01:02:44.260
Now, say what you will about Casey Kasem voicing

01:02:44.260 –> 01:02:46.940
Robin. It is what it is, but that’s what happened.

01:02:47.260 –> 01:02:55.199
You have Ted Knight as the narrator. You’ve got

01:02:55.199 –> 01:02:57.679
John Stevenson as Colonel Wilcox. I’m looking

01:02:57.679 –> 01:03:00.500
for… frank welker’s in here as marvin white

01:03:00.500 –> 01:03:03.579
aka and also wonder dog i was trying to see where

01:03:03.579 –> 01:03:07.460
superman was unless it’s listed as a plastic

01:03:07.460 –> 01:03:13.340
man but like yeah you’ve got this specific the

01:03:13.340 –> 01:03:17.900
original 1973 version that probably affected

01:03:17.900 –> 01:03:22.980
a lot of people that went on to create comic

01:03:22.980 –> 01:03:27.380
books and create other things and i don’t No,

01:03:27.380 –> 01:03:30.340
like I remember watching the challenge, the 1978

01:03:30.340 –> 01:03:33.579
version challenge of the super friends. I don’t

01:03:33.579 –> 01:03:37.519
remember watching the other versions. I don’t

01:03:37.519 –> 01:03:40.420
remember any of the other versions other than

01:03:40.420 –> 01:03:44.260
those two, the 73 version and the 78 version.

01:03:44.860 –> 01:03:47.159
I don’t remember the later versions do a little

01:03:47.159 –> 01:03:48.659
bit more of the team up stuff. They introduced

01:03:48.659 –> 01:03:51.059
some different characters. So like you go from

01:03:51.059 –> 01:03:54.139
the wonder twins to like, there’s some. Yeah,

01:03:54.179 –> 01:03:56.539
I remember the Wonder Twins and stuff, but I

01:03:56.539 –> 01:03:58.960
don’t remember. Firestorm comes in in the 80s.

01:03:59.239 –> 01:04:03.900
I just don’t remember the names of the shows

01:04:03.900 –> 01:04:06.659
is what I’m saying. I remember some of the events

01:04:06.659 –> 01:04:10.019
of it, and I liked it for what it was when I

01:04:10.019 –> 01:04:17.559
was a kid, but I don’t know. You guys know how

01:04:17.559 –> 01:04:23.789
I am for the most part. Unfortunately. Sad. sad

01:04:23.789 –> 01:04:27.769
but i’m the type of person that i like i just

01:04:27.769 –> 01:04:30.130
mentioned earlier i will look at something and

01:04:30.130 –> 01:04:33.030
be like oh i now need to do a whole podcast series

01:04:33.030 –> 01:04:37.570
on this you know i’ve there is a episode by episode

01:04:37.570 –> 01:04:39.710
review of everyone in the 80s already on geekcast

01:04:39.710 –> 01:04:43.309
radio network no there isn’t yes there is i’ve

01:04:43.309 –> 01:04:45.050
already done a written review of every episode

01:04:45.050 –> 01:04:47.309
that aired in the 80s okay there’s a written

01:04:47.309 –> 01:04:49.670
review but there isn’t a podcast but you know

01:04:49.670 –> 01:04:52.679
what i’m saying like for me i i I don’t just

01:04:52.679 –> 01:04:55.219
watch things to watch them anymore. That’s my

01:04:55.219 –> 01:04:59.599
point. I watch things and then podcast about

01:04:59.599 –> 01:05:03.920
them. Right. So I don’t know if I could bring

01:05:03.920 –> 01:05:07.400
myself to do an episode by episode review of

01:05:07.400 –> 01:05:10.940
super friends or challenge of the super friends.

01:05:10.980 –> 01:05:15.679
Yeah. I might be able to do like a season or

01:05:15.679 –> 01:05:19.269
two. Maybe. yeah a lot of them were made up of

01:05:19.269 –> 01:05:20.969
very small segments so a lot of times you had

01:05:20.969 –> 01:05:23.329
like a seven or a ten minute like mini story

01:05:23.329 –> 01:05:25.590
and they had a couple of them per thing but yeah

01:05:25.590 –> 01:05:29.170
for sure so this did appear on five of the nine

01:05:29.170 –> 01:05:31.510
lists that we looked at as well so just like

01:05:31.510 –> 01:05:33.570
danger mouse it had some presence amongst the

01:05:33.570 –> 01:05:36.050
other lists so seems like some critical acclaim

01:05:36.050 –> 01:05:38.329
and universal love for for super friends i think

01:05:38.329 –> 01:05:40.570
the debate goes is historical impact more important

01:05:40.570 –> 01:05:43.409
than overall quality yes or no i don’t know so

01:05:44.059 –> 01:05:47.719
it’s a product of its time and it is a nice like

01:05:47.719 –> 01:05:51.119
it’s a nice thing to look at like oh my god i

01:05:51.119 –> 01:05:53.800
haven’t seen this in forever let me again it’s

01:05:53.800 –> 01:05:56.760
for me it’s one of those things oh i’m going

01:05:56.760 –> 01:05:59.260
to look at one or two or three like you said

01:05:59.260 –> 01:06:02.139
it’s made up of segments insert uh in the episode

01:06:02.139 –> 01:06:04.880
so hey let me watch a couple of segments of this

01:06:04.880 –> 01:06:08.880
to remind myself how cool this was at the time

01:06:08.880 –> 01:06:11.239
when i was a child like i remember watching this

01:06:11.239 –> 01:06:13.969
when i was five six and seven years old So it’s

01:06:13.969 –> 01:06:16.449
one of those things. It’s a product of its time.

01:06:17.329 –> 01:06:19.429
Absolutely. All right, before Mike finishes his

01:06:19.429 –> 01:06:21.710
dissertation, we’re going to make a move back

01:06:21.710 –> 01:06:26.530
to Nickelodeon for our next one. I’d have to

01:06:26.530 –> 01:06:29.909
take this opportunity to say, filthy earth creatures!

01:06:30.150 –> 01:06:33.250
It is clear who the superior species is! Isn’t

01:06:33.250 –> 01:06:39.199
it? Isn’t it? You stink! We are back to the world

01:06:39.199 –> 01:06:41.099
of Nickelodeon, but we’re going to jump in time.

01:06:41.280 –> 01:06:44.559
So we were at 1981 for Danger Mouse. For number

01:06:44.559 –> 01:06:46.840
91, we’re going to go all the way up to the year

01:06:46.840 –> 01:06:49.000
2001. I’m just trying to throw a lot of ones

01:06:49.000 –> 01:06:51.900
at y ‘all. This one was not ranked in our original

01:06:51.900 –> 01:06:56.739
list. It was 173rd, and now it makes it to 91st.

01:06:57.380 –> 01:07:01.019
From Nickelodeon, we are talking about Invader

01:07:01.019 –> 01:07:06.679
Zim. So Invader Zim. I do not have a ton of experience

01:07:06.679 –> 01:07:09.360
with this. I know it has a kind of a rabid fan

01:07:09.360 –> 01:07:14.019
base, kind of a cult following that got boosted

01:07:14.019 –> 01:07:16.679
because it got somewhat of a premature cancellation,

01:07:16.780 –> 01:07:19.239
I think, in a lot of people’s eyes. It has a

01:07:19.239 –> 01:07:21.900
little bit more of a dark, unique tone compared

01:07:21.900 –> 01:07:24.780
to some other stuff that we had gotten before

01:07:24.780 –> 01:07:27.860
that. I did not have this one ranked personally.

01:07:28.460 –> 01:07:31.559
Steve, any thoughts on Invader Zim? I didn’t

01:07:31.559 –> 01:07:35.320
personally have this one listed either. We all

01:07:35.320 –> 01:07:39.139
suck. Well, it did have an 8 .4 out of 10 on

01:07:39.139 –> 01:07:43.599
IMDb, 94 % like the show and then 100 % on Rotten

01:07:43.599 –> 01:07:46.019
Tomatoes. So obviously there’s something there.

01:07:46.179 –> 01:07:51.820
Yeah, I don’t love the concept of it. Like, I

01:07:51.820 –> 01:07:53.579
don’t love the animation either. And so this

01:07:53.579 –> 01:07:59.130
is again, like I mentioned in the. in the premiere

01:07:59.130 –> 01:08:02.570
episodes where we were kind of showing what we

01:08:02.570 –> 01:08:05.809
kind of garnered towards. It’s a Nickelodeon

01:08:05.809 –> 01:08:09.449
show. I don’t have a love for a lot of those.

01:08:09.650 –> 01:08:13.050
Now, it does have Richard Stephen Horvitz, who

01:08:13.050 –> 01:08:18.430
played like Alpha 5. Yep. In Power Rangers. He

01:08:18.430 –> 01:08:20.590
also was in like Billy and Mandy. He was in,

01:08:20.649 –> 01:08:23.350
you know, the Shrek movie, Angry Beavers, you

01:08:23.350 –> 01:08:25.470
know, a lot of other stuff that people would

01:08:25.470 –> 01:08:28.779
know him for. And then you get Wally Wingard,

01:08:28.939 –> 01:08:31.800
you get a bunch of different other people. I

01:08:31.800 –> 01:08:42.779
feel like it’s a bit annoying, but yeah. You’ll

01:08:42.779 –> 01:08:45.500
have to let us know in the comments on this episode

01:08:45.500 –> 01:08:49.359
post of what your defense for Invader Zim is.

01:08:49.460 –> 01:08:52.140
Do you guys think it’s worthy, not worthy? If

01:08:52.140 –> 01:08:55.039
so, where should it fall? I understand the cult

01:08:55.039 –> 01:08:57.220
following. I just don’t have the experience.

01:08:57.340 –> 01:08:59.060
We tried to do our homework on a lot of these

01:08:59.060 –> 01:09:01.239
and watched five episodes or eight episodes of

01:09:01.239 –> 01:09:03.520
different things. This is not one that I made

01:09:03.520 –> 01:09:05.460
my way to. I just had too many other stuff I

01:09:05.460 –> 01:09:06.899
was trying to catch up with, and it fell through

01:09:06.899 –> 01:09:09.920
the cracks. So I wasn’t able to do my homework,

01:09:10.060 –> 01:09:11.760
but it did appear on four of the nine lists we

01:09:11.760 –> 01:09:13.380
talked about. Mike, final thoughts on Invader

01:09:13.380 –> 01:09:17.100
Zim? Yeah, same here. No homework for me. I had

01:09:17.100 –> 01:09:20.520
too much other homework I had to do. So another

01:09:20.520 –> 01:09:23.159
Nickelodeon show makes the countdown. That’s

01:09:23.159 –> 01:09:25.020
the end of the first 10 that we’ve revealed.

01:09:25.140 –> 01:09:27.390
Let’s see what we… do where we go when we start

01:09:27.390 –> 01:09:34.270
here with the next one 90 hey paisanos next up

01:09:34.270 –> 01:09:37.210
on the countdown we’re into our top 90 now this

01:09:37.210 –> 01:09:41.029
was a cartoon that appeared on our list last

01:09:41.029 –> 01:09:43.909
time but it has fallen 23 spots from its previous

01:09:43.909 –> 01:09:50.670
placements from saban and deke this is a syndicated

01:09:50.670 –> 01:09:56.340
show that’s debuted in 1989 We’re talking, it’s

01:09:56.340 –> 01:09:59.079
our second, no, our first 1989 show, our third

01:09:59.079 –> 01:10:01.840
or fourth 1980 show overall. We’re talking about

01:10:01.840 –> 01:10:05.800
the Super Mario Brothers Super Show. Ah, the

01:10:05.800 –> 01:10:10.279
Super Show. It fell from 67 to 90. Didn’t quite

01:10:10.279 –> 01:10:11.939
fall out of the countdown. Mike, what do you

01:10:11.939 –> 01:10:15.600
think of this one? I love it. Obviously, this

01:10:15.600 –> 01:10:18.140
has that hybrid format, which has part cartoons,

01:10:18.300 –> 01:10:20.300
some little live action wraparounds and introductions,

01:10:20.359 –> 01:10:22.949
which was… somewhat unique so i guess it kind

01:10:22.949 –> 01:10:25.010
of did some things there that were interesting

01:10:25.010 –> 01:10:28.010
it was also an early video game adaptation i

01:10:28.010 –> 01:10:29.890
can see some people making the argument that

01:10:29.890 –> 01:10:32.949
it doesn’t belong mike where do you fall on that

01:10:32.949 –> 01:10:36.630
no i love this show this this definitely belongs

01:10:36.630 –> 01:10:40.770
uh for what it’s worth my five -year -old has

01:10:40.770 –> 01:10:43.050
watched a few of these episodes just recently

01:10:43.050 –> 01:10:46.390
and actually really enjoyed them my my kids did

01:10:46.390 –> 01:10:49.510
too must work even though it’s from 1989 she

01:10:49.510 –> 01:10:52.369
thought she was in there laughing her face off

01:10:52.369 –> 01:10:54.949
and thought it was hilarious and watched more

01:10:54.949 –> 01:10:59.050
than i expected her to and the the sad thing

01:10:59.050 –> 01:11:04.810
is the last time we did this uh well actually

01:11:04.810 –> 01:11:08.689
both times i didn’t realize wow he died that

01:11:08.689 –> 01:11:17.130
long ago uh so just before we did the first countdown

01:11:18.569 –> 01:11:22.569
Captain Lou Albano, who is Mario in this, died

01:11:22.569 –> 01:11:28.529
October 14th, 2009. And just after we did the

01:11:28.529 –> 01:11:31.770
first countdown, Danny Wells, who plays Luigi

01:11:31.770 –> 01:11:35.529
in the live action, died November 28th, 2013.

01:11:35.789 –> 01:11:40.310
Now, I thought Danny Wells died a lot later than

01:11:40.310 –> 01:11:47.600
2013. But yeah, no. Absolutely love this show.

01:11:47.659 –> 01:11:49.880
The coolest thing, I remember everything about

01:11:49.880 –> 01:11:52.960
this show. I don’t need to do any research, even

01:11:52.960 –> 01:11:55.000
though I’m sitting here on the Wikipedia page

01:11:55.000 –> 01:11:59.560
for the show. TV’s Mr. Neal and I did a whole

01:11:59.560 –> 01:12:02.439
podcast, Pixels and the Animation on the Geekcast

01:12:02.439 –> 01:12:04.880
Radio Network. We covered all of the episodes

01:12:04.880 –> 01:12:09.819
for this show and others. But I remember watching

01:12:09.819 –> 01:12:12.739
this show as a kid. I was nine years old in 1989.

01:12:16.489 –> 01:12:20.329
The coolest thing about this show running five

01:12:20.329 –> 01:12:24.090
days a week, Monday through Thursday, you got

01:12:24.090 –> 01:12:27.090
Mario and Luigi just as they are, Captain Lou

01:12:27.090 –> 01:12:30.970
Albano and Danny Wells just as they are, and

01:12:30.970 –> 01:12:34.489
you got four Mario cartoons Monday through Thursday.

01:12:34.930 –> 01:12:39.930
On Fridays, you still got them, but then you

01:12:39.930 –> 01:12:43.840
got The Legend of Zelda. And then Monday rolls

01:12:43.840 –> 01:12:46.380
around. You’re like, wait, where’s Zelda? Damn

01:12:46.380 –> 01:12:51.500
it. I want more Zelda. So they ran Zelda every

01:12:51.500 –> 01:12:55.479
Friday. And it is the one of, if not the best,

01:12:55.479 –> 01:12:57.880
I think is one of the only Zelda cartoons they’ve

01:12:57.880 –> 01:13:02.739
ever made. It is the best Legend of Zelda animated

01:13:02.739 –> 01:13:07.619
thing they’ve ever done. And man, I love that

01:13:07.619 –> 01:13:11.039
series. It is so cool. Absolutely love this series.

01:13:11.720 –> 01:13:13.819
You said it dropped how many spots since the

01:13:13.819 –> 01:13:17.680
last time we did this? 23. What’s wrong with

01:13:17.680 –> 01:13:22.180
you people? Not you guys. Not you guys. No, I’m

01:13:22.180 –> 01:13:24.439
going to say something. It went from 67 down

01:13:24.439 –> 01:13:28.460
to 90. I didn’t rank it. I didn’t have room for

01:13:28.460 –> 01:13:30.899
it in my top 100. No, no, no. I wasn’t talking

01:13:30.899 –> 01:13:33.539
about you. I was talking about the other 23 people.

01:13:33.739 –> 01:13:38.659
I don’t know. I don’t know if it has like…

01:13:38.810 –> 01:13:40.970
I for the me the combination like I don’t know

01:13:40.970 –> 01:13:43.510
if it has the quality that deserves top 100 and

01:13:43.510 –> 01:13:45.449
I don’t know if it has the influence I think

01:13:45.449 –> 01:13:47.829
it has some nostalgia and I guess maybe a little

01:13:47.829 –> 01:13:49.609
bit of uniqueness when it comes to video game

01:13:49.609 –> 01:13:51.409
adaptations but I don’t know if I see it as a

01:13:51.409 –> 01:13:56.810
top 100 show so it does have the uniqueness and

01:13:56.810 –> 01:14:00.390
it it does have the quality the uniqueness part

01:14:00.390 –> 01:14:06.170
is I just don’t know if I’ve put it in like Steve

01:14:06.170 –> 01:14:08.779
so the video games haven’t They’ve both dropped

01:14:08.779 –> 01:14:10.439
quite a bit. Captain N dropped right out of the

01:14:10.439 –> 01:14:15.539
countdown. They went from 80 or 79 to off of

01:14:15.539 –> 01:14:17.720
the countdown. And then we have Super Mario Bros.

01:14:17.859 –> 01:14:21.279
Super Show goes from 67 to 90. So both have dropped

01:14:21.279 –> 01:14:23.560
kind of precipitously. What do you think of the

01:14:23.560 –> 01:14:27.319
Super Mario Bros. Super Show? So I did list this

01:14:27.319 –> 01:14:30.020
on my list. Actually, my new list here, I have

01:14:30.020 –> 01:14:32.079
it. I don’t even remember what my old list was.

01:14:32.180 –> 01:14:35.119
But this one, I had it listed at 85. So I’m not

01:14:35.119 –> 01:14:40.229
that far off. It wasn’t it wasn’t that it was

01:14:40.229 –> 01:14:43.810
this stellar show. I think it was because. Out

01:14:43.810 –> 01:14:46.810
of all the different video game series, I picked

01:14:46.810 –> 01:14:49.050
this one because I enjoyed it the most and I

01:14:49.050 –> 01:14:52.390
can still kind of sit down and watch it. Like

01:14:52.390 –> 01:14:54.489
one of my sons had in his top 20, the other one

01:14:54.489 –> 01:14:58.689
had in his top 35, which is probably why it’s

01:14:58.689 –> 01:15:03.949
even on the list. They found it enjoyable. They

01:15:03.949 –> 01:15:05.569
really liked the show. And then, you know, they

01:15:05.569 –> 01:15:07.810
found the part where they do the hybrid thing

01:15:07.810 –> 01:15:13.250
kind of weird. But and to that degree, I kind

01:15:13.250 –> 01:15:16.149
of agree. Like I it was kind of a staple of some

01:15:16.149 –> 01:15:18.170
of the 80s shows, you know, the Ed Grimley type

01:15:18.170 –> 01:15:25.869
thing. I don’t. I don’t I don’t know if like

01:15:25.869 –> 01:15:29.789
any of these old. cartoons i know i have it on

01:15:29.789 –> 01:15:31.770
my list but i don’t know if any of them really

01:15:31.770 –> 01:15:34.649
stand the test of time i think out of the different

01:15:34.649 –> 01:15:37.989
ones that came out in the 80s this is this one

01:15:37.989 –> 01:15:40.109
or the super mario world are the only ones i

01:15:40.109 –> 01:15:43.470
would actually pick uh the other reason i kind

01:15:43.470 –> 01:15:46.369
of put it in here was because the new super mario

01:15:46.369 –> 01:15:50.369
brothers film actually used the theme song from

01:15:50.369 –> 01:15:55.590
this show and so i feel like if people are searching

01:15:55.590 –> 01:15:57.369
it out they’ll be like oh wait what is what’s

01:15:57.369 –> 01:15:59.710
this and you know it’ll get some kind of a small

01:15:59.710 –> 01:16:02.710
resurgence for this one alone because of the

01:16:02.710 –> 01:16:05.170
theme that’s in the movie and that’s why I put

01:16:05.170 –> 01:16:07.850
it on for my daughter so 100 % and that’s why

01:16:07.850 –> 01:16:12.130
I kind of introduced it and why I think this

01:16:12.130 –> 01:16:15.510
one alone stands out but as a whole like none

01:16:15.510 –> 01:16:18.569
of these 80s animated series that are video games

01:16:18.569 –> 01:16:21.069
stand the test of time which is why they’re making

01:16:21.069 –> 01:16:23.510
them all movies and Nintendo is heavily involved

01:16:23.510 –> 01:16:27.020
in them now to make sure that they have the quality

01:16:27.020 –> 01:16:31.560
and the standards of the games. And so in that

01:16:31.560 –> 01:16:36.500
regard, the newer stuff’s better. But if I had

01:16:36.500 –> 01:16:38.779
to pick any of the old 80s shows, this would

01:16:38.779 –> 01:16:41.079
be it for me. I’m interested to see what other

01:16:41.079 –> 01:16:44.020
people comment on when it comes to Super Mario

01:16:44.020 –> 01:16:45.859
Bros. Super Show, as well as all the other shows

01:16:45.859 –> 01:16:48.100
that are being revealed in this episode, see

01:16:48.100 –> 01:16:49.779
which ones they like and which ones they don’t

01:16:49.779 –> 01:16:51.420
like that we’re revealing. It should be interesting.

01:16:52.079 –> 01:16:55.119
All right. Let’s go away from Super Mario Brothers

01:16:55.119 –> 01:16:59.640
Super Show and the 80s into a first, I think,

01:16:59.680 –> 01:17:03.000
a first entrance from the 2010s to now. Coming

01:17:03.000 –> 01:17:08.359
up next. 89. Flood from cosmic shores. Gaze upon

01:17:08.359 –> 01:17:14.840
Dark Inner John. All right. Like I said, this

01:17:14.840 –> 01:17:18.800
is our first entrant from 2010 onward. So just

01:17:18.800 –> 01:17:22.079
hitting that cut because it is from 2010. um

01:17:22.079 –> 01:17:24.619
this is one that i had ranked i had it ranked

01:17:24.619 –> 01:17:27.699
at 97 obviously was not ranked originally since

01:17:27.699 –> 01:17:31.779
it didn’t exist yet interested to see the reaction

01:17:31.779 –> 01:17:34.279
we get from listeners when it comes to this one

01:17:34.279 –> 01:17:36.779
and i’m also interested to hear what your guys’s

01:17:36.779 –> 01:17:41.140
take on if this one is appearing how this franchise

01:17:41.140 –> 01:17:44.079
will fare overall we know there’s a bias here

01:17:44.079 –> 01:17:48.319
let’s go with our first cartoon from the world

01:17:48.319 –> 01:17:52.239
of the transformers this is 2010’s Transformers

01:17:52.239 –> 01:17:56.319
Prime at number 89. Steve, what do you think

01:17:56.319 –> 01:17:59.300
of Transformers Prime making it into our top

01:17:59.300 –> 01:18:03.920
100? To be honest, I’m kind of surprised that

01:18:03.920 –> 01:18:09.239
it made it at this spot. It is pretty good, but

01:18:09.239 –> 01:18:11.359
I do feel like it’s an acquired taste. It’s very

01:18:11.359 –> 01:18:17.140
dark. We did get Frank Walker and Peter Cullen.

01:18:17.710 –> 01:18:19.670
reprising their roles, which was awesome. We

01:18:19.670 –> 01:18:24.069
got Steve Bloom as Starscream. I mean, there’s

01:18:24.069 –> 01:18:29.029
a lot of iconic voice actors in this show. And

01:18:29.029 –> 01:18:31.529
the show is pretty good, but I feel like it also

01:18:31.529 –> 01:18:36.489
kind of lost its way the longer it went. So I

01:18:36.489 –> 01:18:41.510
can see why it’s as high as it is or low, depending

01:18:41.510 –> 01:18:45.949
on how you’re looking at it. Are you surprised

01:18:45.949 –> 01:18:48.689
that it’s in our top 100? I’m not surprised it

01:18:48.689 –> 01:18:52.229
is it is top 100 worthy more than I would say

01:18:52.229 –> 01:18:55.029
probably the you know the rescue bots or things

01:18:55.029 –> 01:18:58.550
like that because each each version of Transformers

01:18:58.550 –> 01:19:01.590
has its own flavor and we have I mean we’ve had

01:19:01.590 –> 01:19:04.989
multiple multiple series but I feel like this

01:19:04.989 –> 01:19:09.189
and animated were kind of the last I would say

01:19:09.189 –> 01:19:12.369
good series we got because it’s it’s been kind

01:19:12.369 –> 01:19:15.179
of floundering with a bunch of random series

01:19:15.179 –> 01:19:20.220
that have various issues, whether it’s. Or writing

01:19:20.220 –> 01:19:24.399
or not long enough episodes or the voice cast

01:19:24.399 –> 01:19:29.000
is kind of mediocre or. Voice direction is terrible.

01:19:30.720 –> 01:19:32.899
It’s been plagued by a lot of those different

01:19:32.899 –> 01:19:36.399
things, so I feel like this is the last good.

01:19:37.220 –> 01:19:41.100
CG series we’ve gotten. So I do feel like it’s

01:19:41.100 –> 01:19:44.289
top 100 worthy. Yeah, this one debuted on The

01:19:44.289 –> 01:19:46.489
Hub, and I’m going to tell you both sides, in

01:19:46.489 –> 01:19:49.050
my opinion, of what this is. So I think on one

01:19:49.050 –> 01:19:50.590
side, you’re going to have people that say it’s

01:19:50.590 –> 01:19:53.630
top 100 worthy because this is probably, some

01:19:53.630 –> 01:19:55.470
people would make the argument that this is kind

01:19:55.470 –> 01:19:58.630
of peak Transformers storytelling. That’s strong

01:19:58.630 –> 01:20:01.310
character writing, that it’s one of the most

01:20:01.310 –> 01:20:03.550
complete versions of Transformers we got, and

01:20:03.550 –> 01:20:05.449
it has that cinematic tone. That’s going to be

01:20:05.449 –> 01:20:07.569
one camp. The other camp is going to say that

01:20:07.569 –> 01:20:09.489
we’re biased towards Transformers shows. Mike,

01:20:09.630 –> 01:20:12.920
what do you think? 89. Okay, 89. This should

01:20:12.920 –> 01:20:19.340
at least be 86. Hurry up. But anyway, look, this

01:20:19.340 –> 01:20:22.380
show, when it came out, when it debuted, it was

01:20:22.380 –> 01:20:25.199
super cool. It was awesome to get Peter and Frank

01:20:25.199 –> 01:20:30.279
back. I understand a lot of people were skeptical

01:20:30.279 –> 01:20:34.399
at the time with the CGI stuff. A lot of people,

01:20:34.479 –> 01:20:36.720
because, you know, you’re going from animated

01:20:36.720 –> 01:20:40.449
style to this. and a lot of people were skeptical

01:20:40.449 –> 01:20:43.470
about that but this definitely does deserve a

01:20:43.470 –> 01:20:45.430
spot like i said i think it should be at least

01:20:45.430 –> 01:20:51.949
three spots higher but is the civic that’s the

01:20:51.949 –> 01:20:54.310
most specific critique i’ve ever heard this one

01:20:54.310 –> 01:20:56.810
he wants it to be 86 like transformers the movie

01:20:56.810 –> 01:21:00.510
exactly oh my god so hey i read between mike’s

01:21:00.510 –> 01:21:04.489
lines because i talked to him exactly i try to

01:21:04.489 –> 01:21:07.369
avoid mike’s lines and reading i know exactly

01:21:07.369 –> 01:21:10.369
you’ve been trying to avoid my lines since 2009

01:21:10.369 –> 01:21:14.310
yeah anyway uh so it’s one year before this show

01:21:14.310 –> 01:21:19.949
came out i know right anyway wait yeah you’re

01:21:19.949 –> 01:21:25.210
right it was um so yeah i i like it i think it’s

01:21:25.210 –> 01:21:27.930
a good show i think it does deserve to be on

01:21:27.930 –> 01:21:31.199
the countdown as far as how many other Transformers

01:21:31.199 –> 01:21:34.420
shows are going to be on the countdown. Don’t

01:21:34.420 –> 01:21:36.979
you people know who we are? We’re the podcast

01:21:36.979 –> 01:21:39.180
radio network. Of course, there’s going to be

01:21:39.180 –> 01:21:41.359
other Transformers shows on this countdown. I

01:21:41.359 –> 01:21:42.899
feel like there’s non -Transformers fans that

01:21:42.899 –> 01:21:45.079
hear Transformers Prime at 89 and they’re like,

01:21:45.100 –> 01:21:49.500
uh -oh. Well, yeah. Here we go. Hello? Don’t

01:21:49.500 –> 01:21:51.439
you know who we are by now? We’ve been online

01:21:51.439 –> 01:21:54.899
for almost 17 years. Now, if Beast Wars doesn’t

01:21:54.899 –> 01:21:57.470
make the list, I’m… filing a formal protest

01:21:57.470 –> 01:22:00.449
he’s gonna riot we’ll give you the we’ll give

01:22:00.449 –> 01:22:03.210
you the name of the founder of the website well

01:22:03.210 –> 01:22:06.829
that’s him he he can’t yeah he can’t he can’t

01:22:06.829 –> 01:22:09.529
riot on himself he can’t go all beast mode on

01:22:09.529 –> 01:22:13.050
an interesting live show all right it lands double

01:22:13.050 –> 01:22:17.210
zero from one franchise to another let’s see

01:22:17.210 –> 01:22:22.409
where we go next 88 an adventure begins and a

01:22:22.409 –> 01:22:27.180
legend is born The Dragon Balls have been scattered,

01:22:27.279 –> 01:22:29.819
and it’s up to Goku and friends to collect them.

01:22:29.960 –> 01:22:36.180
Witness the birth of the Dragon Ball Saga. It’ll

01:22:36.180 –> 01:22:38.020
be interesting also to see what people think

01:22:38.020 –> 01:22:41.039
as this one makes its debut into our countdown.

01:22:41.199 –> 01:22:43.220
It was eligible last time, but didn’t quite make

01:22:43.220 –> 01:22:47.100
it. It was ranked 143rd last time. It climbs

01:22:47.100 –> 01:22:49.920
all the way up to 88 this time. So one of those

01:22:49.920 –> 01:22:52.010
that we didn’t consider. When we were doing all

01:22:52.010 –> 01:22:54.470
our speculation, the shows that got votes last

01:22:54.470 –> 01:22:57.729
time, that would actually rise up the rankings.

01:22:57.829 –> 01:23:01.449
So this one came over to us in 1986. How about

01:23:01.449 –> 01:23:04.010
another anime entry into our countdown? This

01:23:04.010 –> 01:23:09.930
is the original Dragon Ball. 1986 syndicated

01:23:09.930 –> 01:23:12.770
from Harmony Gold here. I’m going to start with

01:23:12.770 –> 01:23:14.630
Steve because he’s the most knowledgeable person

01:23:14.630 –> 01:23:16.550
we have when it comes to the universe that is

01:23:16.550 –> 01:23:20.180
Dragon Ball. So the first series makes its appearance

01:23:20.180 –> 01:23:23.180
here at number 88. What are your thoughts? I

01:23:23.180 –> 01:23:25.659
think it’s awesome because this show is what

01:23:25.659 –> 01:23:32.920
spawned a lot of the fighting action anime that

01:23:32.920 –> 01:23:35.619
came to America, even though it’s not as widely

01:23:35.619 –> 01:23:38.979
known. Yeah, not just for Dragon Ball either.

01:23:39.119 –> 01:23:41.680
This is the foundation of a global anime fandom.

01:23:42.760 –> 01:23:45.640
Yeah, totally. And they they dubbed it and they’ve

01:23:45.640 –> 01:23:48.300
it’s been redubbed with the same voice cast is

01:23:48.300 –> 01:23:51.260
like Dragon Ball Z. When they redid all of that,

01:23:51.359 –> 01:23:55.840
they kind of have this unified voice front. You

01:23:55.840 –> 01:23:59.500
know, it starts off. You can you can kind of

01:23:59.500 –> 01:24:02.960
tell he’s rewriting. The continuity as he goes

01:24:02.960 –> 01:24:07.460
on some of it, but it’s it’s very. Story based

01:24:07.460 –> 01:24:10.659
character based like Goku’s, you know, this optimist

01:24:10.659 –> 01:24:13.010
that kind of picks up. friends along the way

01:24:13.010 –> 01:24:16.789
and you find out his story slowly as you know

01:24:16.789 –> 01:24:19.270
his friends kind of peel back the the onion that’s

01:24:19.270 –> 01:24:22.689
his life uh and you find out that he’s not actually

01:24:22.689 –> 01:24:26.510
human but they don’t know that he’s not like

01:24:26.510 –> 01:24:30.189
they they don’t know why he has the tail or turns

01:24:30.189 –> 01:24:34.250
into the uh the giant uzaru monkey uh when the

01:24:34.250 –> 01:24:36.729
the moon comes out and you don’t find out until

01:24:36.729 –> 01:24:38.869
dragon ball z that he’s a saying like that didn’t

01:24:38.869 –> 01:24:43.050
even exist until that point but You get to meet

01:24:43.050 –> 01:24:45.090
a lot of the main cast that kind of stick through

01:24:45.090 –> 01:24:47.189
and have been with the series since the very

01:24:47.189 –> 01:24:50.489
beginning and find out how they went from…

01:24:50.489 –> 01:24:52.949
Pretty much everybody Goku fights goes from enemy

01:24:52.949 –> 01:24:58.029
to friend by the end of that arc. So it’s been…

01:24:58.029 –> 01:25:02.090
There’s a lot of comedy in it. There’s a lot

01:25:02.090 –> 01:25:03.989
of things that wouldn’t get displayed on TV now.

01:25:05.270 –> 01:25:07.489
Namely, when Goku’s running around butt naked.

01:25:09.420 –> 01:25:11.319
Like there’s literally scenes where you see his

01:25:11.319 –> 01:25:13.600
butt or his balls. Like it’s just it’s weird.

01:25:14.359 –> 01:25:19.760
It would not get displayed on TV now. But yeah,

01:25:19.800 –> 01:25:21.979
like you get to meet Bulma, Yamcha, Tien, like

01:25:21.979 –> 01:25:24.079
all these other characters with Goku. But it’s

01:25:24.079 –> 01:25:27.460
it’s very much the story of him and his goal

01:25:27.460 –> 01:25:30.420
of becoming stronger and a better fighter. And

01:25:30.420 –> 01:25:35.199
it continues on through even. Dragon Ball Super,

01:25:35.359 –> 01:25:38.460
though. It’s definitely a foundational series.

01:25:38.619 –> 01:25:43.220
And I think that to have any other Dragon Ball

01:25:43.220 –> 01:25:47.880
series, like if you I love Dragon Ball Z. To

01:25:47.880 –> 01:25:50.239
me, it’s like my favorite. That was my intro

01:25:50.239 –> 01:25:55.079
to the whole anime sphere. But to not have Dragon

01:25:55.079 –> 01:25:57.439
Ball on the list is kind of a disservice to all

01:25:57.439 –> 01:25:59.939
anime and especially the Dragon Ball franchise,

01:26:00.100 –> 01:26:04.300
because some argue that it is the best that we

01:26:04.300 –> 01:26:07.939
got storytelling wise. Yeah. And I think from

01:26:07.939 –> 01:26:09.600
a foundational standpoint, we’ve had that a number

01:26:09.600 –> 01:26:12.319
of times so far in today’s episode from Speed

01:26:12.319 –> 01:26:16.159
Racer and Robotech in a way to Gummy Bears to

01:26:16.159 –> 01:26:19.020
Super Friends. I think Dragon Ball kind of fits

01:26:19.020 –> 01:26:21.539
in that same realm of like being influential

01:26:21.539 –> 01:26:25.500
for what comes after it as well. So it sounds

01:26:25.500 –> 01:26:26.760
like it might have a little bit more quality

01:26:26.760 –> 01:26:28.659
in and of itself than maybe a couple of other

01:26:28.659 –> 01:26:31.399
ones did. But the history, I think, plays a part

01:26:31.399 –> 01:26:32.739
as well. Mike, what do you think about Dragon

01:26:32.739 –> 01:26:36.189
Ball coming in here at number 88? never seen

01:26:36.189 –> 01:26:39.729
it all right i figured that was the case but

01:26:39.729 –> 01:26:43.630
uh wanted to check anyway so all right we’re

01:26:43.630 –> 01:26:46.050
gonna take a break from dragon ball and let’s

01:26:46.050 –> 01:26:49.109
go to our what will end up being our most recent

01:26:49.109 –> 01:26:53.350
show to make the entire list coming up next 87

01:26:53.350 –> 01:26:59.970
we have to stay vigilant to me my x -men magneto

01:27:00.600 –> 01:27:03.859
The last will and testament of Charles Xavier.

01:27:04.619 –> 01:27:11.260
Everything he built now belongs to me. No yet,

01:27:11.319 –> 01:27:13.800
Mike. This is the most recent show that is going

01:27:13.800 –> 01:27:18.579
to make our entire list. This is from 2024. So

01:27:18.579 –> 01:27:21.140
there will be no shows that came out in 2025

01:27:21.140 –> 01:27:24.640
that make our list. So from 2024, we’ve already

01:27:24.640 –> 01:27:27.600
had one DC show. So let’s have our first Marvel

01:27:27.600 –> 01:27:33.090
show. Coming in at number 87 is X -Men 97. So

01:27:33.090 –> 01:27:35.609
it’s from Marvel. I believe it originally aired

01:27:35.609 –> 01:27:39.970
on Disney+. Coming in here at number 87, X -Men

01:27:39.970 –> 01:27:44.329
97. Mike, what do you think? Yeah, it’s a continuation

01:27:44.329 –> 01:27:48.869
of X -Men, the animated series from 1992. X -Men

01:27:48.869 –> 01:27:52.890
97, the one thing that gets talked about right

01:27:52.890 –> 01:27:56.899
now is that… it’s very good for what’s come

01:27:56.899 –> 01:27:59.760
out so far. And the cliffhanger that a lot of

01:27:59.760 –> 01:28:02.439
people are left with is they think it has the

01:28:02.439 –> 01:28:05.020
potential to be even better than X -Men, the

01:28:05.020 –> 01:28:06.859
animated series, or at least elevate that to

01:28:06.859 –> 01:28:08.880
a certain point. But then the other side of the

01:28:08.880 –> 01:28:10.420
coin, I’ll try to finish a sentence before you

01:28:10.420 –> 01:28:12.739
go, Mike, let me, let me try. But the other side

01:28:12.739 –> 01:28:15.920
of the coin is that, is it too new? And do we

01:28:15.920 –> 01:28:18.460
need to wait until it finishes before it becomes

01:28:18.460 –> 01:28:21.300
top 100 worthy or not? That’s the question. Go

01:28:21.300 –> 01:28:24.789
ahead, Mike. Well, the thing of it is, is we

01:28:24.789 –> 01:28:27.930
decided to separate it from X -Men, the animated

01:28:27.930 –> 01:28:30.729
series, even though technically it is a continuation

01:28:30.729 –> 01:28:35.850
of X -Men, the animated series. The thing of

01:28:35.850 –> 01:28:38.590
it is, is there is only currently one season

01:28:38.590 –> 01:28:42.949
that’s available, which is 10 episodes. The second

01:28:42.949 –> 01:28:46.069
season is supposed to come out mid this year

01:28:46.069 –> 01:28:50.090
at some point. I thought the second season was

01:28:50.090 –> 01:28:55.050
already out for some odd reason. uh the 10 episodes

01:28:55.050 –> 01:29:04.149
are very good i don’t know if it’s stop 100 worthy

01:29:04.149 –> 01:29:09.289
and coming in where where are we at now 87 87

01:29:09.289 –> 01:29:13.670
should have been way lower this honestly flip

01:29:13.670 –> 01:29:17.710
-flop 100 in this steve what does this mean for

01:29:17.710 –> 01:29:21.289
the superhero segment of our So we’ve seen a

01:29:21.289 –> 01:29:23.409
couple now already. So just two, we’ve had super

01:29:23.409 –> 01:29:26.189
friends at 92. We’ve had X -Men 97 at 87. Does

01:29:26.189 –> 01:29:29.029
this mean there’s a lot still to come or what

01:29:29.029 –> 01:29:31.050
do you think the impact of X -Men 97 showing

01:29:31.050 –> 01:29:36.689
up on our countdown is? So I, I understood like

01:29:36.689 –> 01:29:40.449
some people were, were asking, and this was in

01:29:40.449 –> 01:29:45.029
the fan vote, actually do have X -Men 97 included

01:29:45.029 –> 01:29:46.649
because originally I think we were going to lump

01:29:46.649 –> 01:29:48.979
it all together because it. still is a continuation

01:29:48.979 –> 01:29:53.500
of x -men the animated series from the 90s and

01:29:53.500 –> 01:29:57.119
people were like no i mean it’s the same but

01:29:57.119 –> 01:29:59.760
it’s not like it’s got a different title card

01:29:59.760 –> 01:30:04.840
and so like in that regard i understood what

01:30:04.840 –> 01:30:06.939
they were going for and they are kind of flipping

01:30:06.939 –> 01:30:09.340
things on its head it is marvel animation it’s

01:30:09.340 –> 01:30:14.119
not like fox studios it’s um They did reuse the

01:30:14.119 –> 01:30:16.600
theme song. They brought back as many voice casts

01:30:16.600 –> 01:30:18.220
as they could from the original that were still

01:30:18.220 –> 01:30:27.359
alive. But. It’s also. I think it’s a recency

01:30:27.359 –> 01:30:30.560
bias, like for one, but I think, too, like I

01:30:30.560 –> 01:30:34.000
can’t tell. Like, it’s this weird, this weird

01:30:34.000 –> 01:30:38.500
conundrum because it’s a new series. It’s but

01:30:38.500 –> 01:30:41.180
it’s a continuation and it plays with nostalgia.

01:30:41.680 –> 01:30:44.439
Right. So we’re dealing with all three simultaneously

01:30:44.439 –> 01:30:46.640
and it’s like, okay, so where does this actually

01:30:46.640 –> 01:30:50.300
lie? Like where, where should it go? And it’s

01:30:50.300 –> 01:30:52.720
also got one season. So theoretically it shouldn’t

01:30:52.720 –> 01:30:56.579
never have been in, in this list because by,

01:30:56.720 –> 01:30:59.140
you know, our own account of certain shows that

01:30:59.140 –> 01:31:02.699
we axed from the list that had one season, it

01:31:02.699 –> 01:31:06.479
should have never made it. However, it was supposed

01:31:06.479 –> 01:31:08.560
to have another season and I believe it was supposed

01:31:08.560 –> 01:31:10.359
to come out sooner, but because of all of the,

01:31:10.909 –> 01:31:14.350
the drama with production team and Marvel and

01:31:14.350 –> 01:31:20.670
Disney, like it got postponed. So I agree. It

01:31:20.670 –> 01:31:24.789
should be here. I kind of, I mean, I had it much

01:31:24.789 –> 01:31:28.289
higher on my list than, than this, but it was

01:31:28.289 –> 01:31:30.489
because it’s, it’s giving us that modern animation.

01:31:30.529 –> 01:31:32.670
It’s still playing with the nostalgia. It’s continuing

01:31:32.670 –> 01:31:34.890
that universe. And I always enjoyed it as a kid.

01:31:35.529 –> 01:31:41.720
Uh, it does have a pretty good rating on, on

01:31:41.720 –> 01:31:44.640
Rotten Tomatoes at 99%, whereas the original

01:31:44.640 –> 01:31:47.619
X -Men has 83%. So, I mean, I think, again, it’s

01:31:47.619 –> 01:31:49.380
just because a new generation has been exposed

01:31:49.380 –> 01:31:54.380
to it. So, I don’t know. This one’s weird for

01:31:54.380 –> 01:31:56.300
me. So, I’ll be interested to see what people’s

01:31:56.300 –> 01:31:58.539
arguments are in the comments. It was definitely

01:31:58.539 –> 01:32:00.500
one that was very highly ranked by those that

01:32:00.500 –> 01:32:04.000
ranked it. So, everything that appears in today’s

01:32:04.000 –> 01:32:08.520
segment is appearing on anywhere from 12 to 19

01:32:08.520 –> 01:32:13.050
of the 44 list. this is one of the four shows

01:32:13.050 –> 01:32:16.989
that appeared on only 12 lists which means that

01:32:16.989 –> 01:32:19.470
it was pretty highly ranked amongst those 12

01:32:19.470 –> 01:32:22.409
contributors i mean that’s a fourth of our list

01:32:22.409 –> 01:32:25.869
kind of um so it was highly ranked by those folks

01:32:25.869 –> 01:32:28.409
for sure but i do think you you make a good point

01:32:28.409 –> 01:32:30.329
it’s both playing on nostalgia and recency which

01:32:30.329 –> 01:32:33.250
is a maybe a good recipe for getting some more

01:32:33.250 –> 01:32:35.609
points for sure and the funny thing is really

01:32:35.609 –> 01:32:38.109
quickly i just looked at the episodes and i looked

01:32:38.109 –> 01:32:41.359
at the cast list and steve’s point about both

01:32:41.359 –> 01:32:44.840
recency and nostalgia the only nostalgia part

01:32:44.840 –> 01:32:48.100
for me when i watched it was cal dodd returning

01:32:48.100 –> 01:32:53.640
as the voice of wolverine and storm i don’t and

01:32:53.640 –> 01:32:57.880
yeah and it doesn’t look exactly the same no

01:32:57.880 –> 01:32:59.939
it doesn’t and that’s fine you know you have

01:32:59.939 –> 01:33:02.359
updated animation and whatever else the animation

01:33:02.359 –> 01:33:05.520
changed that’s fine after 30 years or whatever

01:33:05.520 –> 01:33:08.159
almost 30 years i thought they made it like as

01:33:08.159 –> 01:33:11.239
close to looking as they tried they did their

01:33:11.239 –> 01:33:13.539
best you’re also dealing with people that don’t

01:33:13.539 –> 01:33:17.039
do classic animation anymore everything’s yeah

01:33:17.039 –> 01:33:21.920
generated exactly but like i don’t even like

01:33:21.920 –> 01:33:27.260
the first season came out talking two years ago

01:33:27.260 –> 01:33:30.439
so i watched it two years ago when it came out

01:33:30.439 –> 01:33:33.699
and the 10 episodes literally i just looked at

01:33:33.699 –> 01:33:36.579
all of their descriptions and i’m like I don’t

01:33:36.579 –> 01:33:39.220
remember any of this, any of any of these plots.

01:33:39.840 –> 01:33:42.659
Like, I now feel like I have to go back and watch

01:33:42.659 –> 01:33:45.000
these 10 episodes to remember what the hell happened

01:33:45.000 –> 01:33:49.939
in this show. Like, no clue. Whereas I could

01:33:49.939 –> 01:33:53.680
tell you exactly what happened in Dawn of Futures,

01:33:53.680 –> 01:33:57.619
Days of Futures Past in the original show. Like,

01:33:57.619 –> 01:34:01.000
it’s just weird. So like I said, it’s the most

01:34:01.000 –> 01:34:02.739
recent one. So it’ll be interesting to see what

01:34:02.739 –> 01:34:05.479
people’s thoughts are on X -Men 97. Like we said,

01:34:05.520 –> 01:34:07.840
this only got in through the fan vote. And then

01:34:07.840 –> 01:34:09.899
once it was in through the fan vote, enough people

01:34:09.899 –> 01:34:11.859
voted for it. 12 people voted for it high enough

01:34:11.859 –> 01:34:13.920
to get it on the list. So here it sits at number

01:34:13.920 –> 01:34:19.060
87. Let’s go to a new production studio. Let’s

01:34:19.060 –> 01:34:24.359
go back to the 80s for number 86. Ghostly haunting.

01:34:24.439 –> 01:34:28.359
I turn loose. Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice.

01:34:30.449 –> 01:34:33.949
All right. Next up on our list from Nelvana,

01:34:34.109 –> 01:34:37.729
which we haven’t said before, debuted on ABC,

01:34:37.810 –> 01:34:41.449
which seems to be a common theme today. This

01:34:41.449 –> 01:34:44.789
is 1989 series. I’m interested to hear your guys’s

01:34:44.789 –> 01:34:49.350
take on this one. It was 157 15 years ago. It

01:34:49.350 –> 01:34:52.390
has risen all the way up to 86. I guess there’s

01:34:52.390 –> 01:34:55.609
more love in this group of 44 people for Beetlejuice.

01:34:56.039 –> 01:34:58.300
Or maybe this was influenced by the more recent

01:34:58.300 –> 01:35:01.680
movies. I don’t know. But we have 1989’s Beetlejuice

01:35:01.680 –> 01:35:05.960
here at number 86. Mike, what do you think? Interesting.

01:35:07.420 –> 01:35:09.779
Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice. Doesn’t

01:35:09.779 –> 01:35:13.140
work. Mike would do that, though. Of course I

01:35:13.140 –> 01:35:17.840
would. Very interesting. I love this cartoon.

01:35:18.039 –> 01:35:21.399
This cartoon was crazy. And I did not know until

01:35:21.399 –> 01:35:25.359
we actually interviewed Michael Hirsch, who…

01:35:25.920 –> 01:35:30.479
was the founder of nirvana uh did not know that

01:35:30.479 –> 01:35:33.180
nirvana was the one that created this cartoon

01:35:33.180 –> 01:35:38.159
but this cartoon was crazy back then absolutely

01:35:38.159 –> 01:35:41.279
loved it because i was a as a kid i was a i loved

01:35:41.279 –> 01:35:46.460
that movie sorry i did have a couple award nominations

01:35:46.460 –> 01:35:50.060
so it is a little critically praised as well

01:35:50.060 –> 01:35:51.960
mike or steve i guess to start with steve do

01:35:51.960 –> 01:35:54.199
you think this one benefited from the recent

01:35:54.199 –> 01:35:58.579
beetlejuice movie Getting votes or do you think

01:35:58.579 –> 01:35:59.859
it’s just a different pool of people that just

01:35:59.859 –> 01:36:03.420
like Beetlejuice? I think 100 % it was fueled

01:36:03.420 –> 01:36:05.800
by the movie. Also, I noticed right around the

01:36:05.800 –> 01:36:10.460
time that the movie came out on DVD and Blu -ray

01:36:10.460 –> 01:36:15.579
because I frequent Walmart out of boredom. Yeah,

01:36:16.640 –> 01:36:20.220
pretty much every other day. I go on my lunch

01:36:20.220 –> 01:36:21.800
break because I’m like, I got to get out of here.

01:36:22.380 –> 01:36:24.300
do something and so i started looking at the

01:36:24.300 –> 01:36:27.140
dvds and so when the movie came out on dvd is

01:36:27.140 –> 01:36:29.359
that you know the the release of beetlejuice

01:36:29.359 –> 01:36:34.279
2 the animated series miraculously shows up as

01:36:34.279 –> 01:36:39.159
a box set of the animated series in walmart and

01:36:39.159 –> 01:36:43.420
i was like oh did not know that you know that

01:36:43.420 –> 01:36:46.380
it was out on disc and not that i bought it but

01:36:46.380 –> 01:36:49.140
it was just it was interesting to find and so

01:36:49.140 –> 01:36:51.539
i think that a lot of people are kind of rediscovering

01:36:51.819 –> 01:36:54.279
the animated series in proxy because of the beetle

01:36:54.279 –> 01:36:59.300
juice to a film that came out. And so I think

01:36:59.300 –> 01:37:02.220
some of it’s a, a recency bias, but I think that,

01:37:02.220 –> 01:37:05.659
uh, two, it was kind of original cause you had

01:37:05.659 –> 01:37:08.600
some CG mixed in with the animation. The voice

01:37:08.600 –> 01:37:11.899
acting was great. It was weird. Uh, it had a

01:37:11.899 –> 01:37:16.140
very nineties vibe to it and the toys were fun.

01:37:16.840 –> 01:37:22.630
And it just, overall like the whole series kind

01:37:22.630 –> 01:37:25.770
of played in the the nether realm and you had

01:37:25.770 –> 01:37:27.729
all these weird moments that kind of fit with

01:37:27.729 –> 01:37:30.069
something like the magic school bus like going

01:37:30.069 –> 01:37:33.890
into his brain or you know different different

01:37:33.890 –> 01:37:37.449
explorations of of him or his world you know

01:37:37.449 –> 01:37:39.550
his feet start talking in an episode you know

01:37:39.550 –> 01:37:42.689
detach and i mean there’s just all kinds of weird

01:37:42.689 –> 01:37:44.409
stuff that happens so i definitely think it’s

01:37:44.409 –> 01:37:47.029
more of a recency bias by collaboration with

01:37:47.029 –> 01:37:50.239
the films uh but it’s not a bad series and i

01:37:50.239 –> 01:37:52.640
i think it’s kind of deserving to be on the list

01:37:52.640 –> 01:37:55.079
this time around i’m kind of surprised it didn’t

01:37:55.079 –> 01:37:57.880
make the list last time around honestly like

01:37:57.880 –> 01:37:59.220
out of all the shows i would have thought there

01:37:59.220 –> 01:38:01.000
would have been more love for it it is interesting

01:38:01.000 –> 01:38:03.199
also interesting reinvention of the character

01:38:03.199 –> 01:38:04.979
beetle just because he kind of goes from a villain

01:38:04.979 –> 01:38:08.960
uh to an ally uh you know film to cartoon in

01:38:08.960 –> 01:38:11.359
a way too so i’m not surprised that it appears

01:38:11.359 –> 01:38:13.119
here i’m more surprised that it didn’t the first

01:38:13.119 –> 01:38:16.750
time i guess agree And I got to say, Stephen

01:38:16.750 –> 01:38:20.170
Oimet, I hope I’m pronouncing that right, Canadian

01:38:20.170 –> 01:38:24.710
voice actor, does a great Michael Keaton impression

01:38:24.710 –> 01:38:27.930
as the main voice of Beetlejuice in the cartoon.

01:38:28.569 –> 01:38:32.050
Yeah. All right. We’re going to go back quite

01:38:32.050 –> 01:38:37.310
a ways in time here for this next one. 85. And

01:38:37.310 –> 01:38:40.390
now here they are, the most daredevil group of

01:38:40.390 –> 01:38:42.510
daddy drivers to ever whirl their wheels in the

01:38:42.510 –> 01:38:46.239
wacky races. Competing for the title of the world’s

01:38:46.239 –> 01:38:51.840
wackiest racer. All right. For number 85, we’re

01:38:51.840 –> 01:38:54.560
going back into the 60s. Our third trip back

01:38:54.560 –> 01:38:56.600
to the 60s. So we’ve already seen Speed Racer

01:38:56.600 –> 01:39:00.359
and Top Cat. Intrigued that this one is making

01:39:00.359 –> 01:39:04.340
the list. It was at number 135 15 years ago.

01:39:04.399 –> 01:39:08.239
It has climbed up about 50 spots to get to our

01:39:08.239 –> 01:39:12.500
number 85 spot from 1968. a Hanna -Barbera show

01:39:12.500 –> 01:39:15.220
that debuted on CBS, first time we’ve mentioned

01:39:15.220 –> 01:39:20.319
CBS, and that would be Wacky Races, which is

01:39:20.319 –> 01:39:23.960
interesting here because from a storytelling

01:39:23.960 –> 01:39:26.060
standpoint and all of this type of stuff might

01:39:26.060 –> 01:39:30.479
be seen as simple, campy, not a lot of depth

01:39:30.479 –> 01:39:33.619
to it, but it did give us some iconic concepts

01:39:33.619 –> 01:39:36.420
and designs and archetypes like Dick Dastardly

01:39:36.420 –> 01:39:39.529
and things of that nature. So maybe more design

01:39:39.529 –> 01:39:42.310
influence than story influence. But Steve, what

01:39:42.310 –> 01:39:45.350
do you think of Wacky Races, another 60s show

01:39:45.350 –> 01:39:49.310
showing up here at number 85? Out of a variety

01:39:49.310 –> 01:39:52.590
of shows that came out around that time, it was

01:39:52.590 –> 01:39:56.369
highly entertaining between all of the different

01:39:56.369 –> 01:39:59.449
characters that would show up. You know, the

01:39:59.449 –> 01:40:05.130
Slag Brothers and the Ant Hill Mob. And it was

01:40:05.130 –> 01:40:07.569
kind of funny because it was announcing. in a

01:40:07.569 –> 01:40:14.510
lot of ways like it was nascar right mixed with

01:40:14.510 –> 01:40:17.050
like wrestling in a sense because of all the

01:40:17.050 –> 01:40:19.430
oh and they did blah blah blah like you know

01:40:19.430 –> 01:40:24.510
and i mean let’s get for real everybody watched

01:40:24.510 –> 01:40:26.949
it because of dick dastardly and butley like

01:40:26.949 –> 01:40:29.569
that was literally yeah that was literally the

01:40:29.569 –> 01:40:31.250
whole reason for the show like everything else

01:40:31.250 –> 01:40:34.729
was kind of weird and you know then I mean, I

01:40:34.729 –> 01:40:35.829
feel like if you’re going to remember anybody,

01:40:35.989 –> 01:40:38.829
it’s the Slag Brothers, Penelope, Pit Stop, and

01:40:38.829 –> 01:40:41.289
then Dick Dastardly and Muttley. The rest of

01:40:41.289 –> 01:40:47.270
them, it’s kind of like, eh. But, I mean, I don’t

01:40:47.270 –> 01:40:52.350
know. Out of some of the different shows, I did

01:40:52.350 –> 01:40:54.750
find it enjoyable for the times I did watch it.

01:40:56.949 –> 01:41:01.430
But, yeah, it’s… I guess it’s a lot of fun

01:41:01.430 –> 01:41:05.600
to those that… kind of grew up with it or that

01:41:05.600 –> 01:41:10.720
um like that type of program i think and it’s

01:41:10.720 –> 01:41:13.140
had a reboot too like in recent years as well

01:41:13.140 –> 01:41:16.060
i think one thing that this reminds me of and

01:41:16.060 –> 01:41:18.260
it’s not for everybody i guess but like one thing

01:41:18.260 –> 01:41:20.880
that it i’m surprised it made our countdown honestly

01:41:20.880 –> 01:41:23.060
like it didn’t make our countdown last time and

01:41:23.060 –> 01:41:25.000
i was a little surprised it did this time i do

01:41:25.000 –> 01:41:27.039
enjoy it from a personal standpoint because i

01:41:27.039 –> 01:41:29.739
think it does two things that are somewhat of

01:41:29.739 –> 01:41:34.619
a lost art which is one it’s kind of like that

01:41:34.619 –> 01:41:39.460
timeless humor that similar to like a Tom and

01:41:39.460 –> 01:41:41.279
Jerry or Looney Tunes or things of that nature

01:41:41.279 –> 01:41:43.920
where like the types of hijinks and the things

01:41:43.920 –> 01:41:46.960
that are going on, it doesn’t matter what generation

01:41:46.960 –> 01:41:49.739
you’re from. I don’t think as far as like finding

01:41:49.739 –> 01:41:52.479
the humor in like what they’re doing. And I think

01:41:52.479 –> 01:41:55.880
the other thing that this show focuses on is

01:41:55.880 –> 01:41:59.659
yes, they’re not doing a whole lot of like deep

01:41:59.659 –> 01:42:02.659
storytelling or whatnot, but they rely so much

01:42:02.659 –> 01:42:08.180
on the art of voice acting and like the people

01:42:08.180 –> 01:42:10.020
that are supplying the voices for these different

01:42:10.020 –> 01:42:11.659
characters. And then you have the announcer and

01:42:11.659 –> 01:42:13.159
you have all of the different stuff that like

01:42:13.159 –> 01:42:16.899
the storytelling is from the voice actors. Like

01:42:16.899 –> 01:42:18.819
they’re really bringing the characters to life

01:42:18.819 –> 01:42:21.359
and they’re really like bringing you along. And

01:42:21.359 –> 01:42:24.460
it’s like, I think there’s a timelessness to

01:42:24.460 –> 01:42:26.619
it. I think there’s a, that’s why it’s probably

01:42:26.619 –> 01:42:28.420
been rebooted to make it look a little bit more.

01:42:28.920 –> 01:42:30.899
modern but like still kind of rely on the same

01:42:30.899 –> 01:42:32.960
type of story gimmicks like you know like just

01:42:32.960 –> 01:42:34.720
like the Wile E. Coyote Roadrunner type stuff

01:42:34.720 –> 01:42:38.180
like it’s very similar to that aspect so I get

01:42:38.180 –> 01:42:41.899
the draw to it I think what surprises me is like

01:42:41.899 –> 01:42:44.600
shows like this and Laugh Olympics and things

01:42:44.600 –> 01:42:47.100
of that nature when you’re thinking about Hanna

01:42:47.100 –> 01:42:50.180
-Barbera is I didn’t expect any of those like

01:42:50.180 –> 01:42:52.939
more compilation shows to make the countdown

01:42:52.939 –> 01:42:55.979
versus like when it’s driven by one specific

01:42:55.979 –> 01:42:58.439
character, like we expect to probably see later

01:42:58.439 –> 01:43:01.220
in the countdown. Um, so, so that’s kind of like

01:43:01.220 –> 01:43:02.979
where I’m a little perplexed, but I’m not, I

01:43:02.979 –> 01:43:04.979
don’t dislike wacky races. Mike, what do you

01:43:04.979 –> 01:43:09.479
think of wacky races? Everything you guys already

01:43:09.479 –> 01:43:12.819
said, plus so much more like, Oh my God, this

01:43:12.819 –> 01:43:19.199
show, this show is a kid like so good. Uh, obviously

01:43:19.199 –> 01:43:22.079
Dick Dastardly and Muttley. I actually have,

01:43:22.359 –> 01:43:26.710
uh, When Funko, I think they still make this

01:43:26.710 –> 01:43:28.590
product. I don’t know if they do or not anymore,

01:43:28.710 –> 01:43:32.229
but they used to make soda products. So they

01:43:32.229 –> 01:43:35.609
were these, think of the Funko Pop product things,

01:43:35.750 –> 01:43:39.369
but they came in cans. So they had to fit them

01:43:39.369 –> 01:43:42.409
into soda cans. So the products were made slightly

01:43:42.409 –> 01:43:46.149
slimmer. I actually have Dick Dastardly and Muttly

01:43:46.149 –> 01:43:50.470
over on my kitchen shelf there. Absolutely love

01:43:50.470 –> 01:43:53.210
them. From the Slag Brothers to the Gruesome

01:43:53.210 –> 01:43:58.329
Twosome to Professor Patton Pending to the Red

01:43:58.329 –> 01:44:02.109
Max and Penelope Pitstop, she’s always getting

01:44:02.109 –> 01:44:05.229
in trouble. Like you guys said, the Angel Mob

01:44:05.229 –> 01:44:10.050
and Peter Perfect and Rufus Roughcut and all

01:44:10.050 –> 01:44:14.050
that just absolutely love Wacky Races. They just

01:44:14.050 –> 01:44:19.430
re -released it on Blu -ray last year, the complete

01:44:19.430 –> 01:44:23.989
series. I got to track that down, but absolutely

01:44:23.989 –> 01:44:26.470
love wacky races. Cause again, it’s a different,

01:44:26.569 –> 01:44:32.970
it’s a different type of cartoon show. That isn’t

01:44:32.970 –> 01:44:36.369
your normal thing. And it’s an, it’s interesting.

01:44:36.630 –> 01:44:41.149
It’s, it’s fun and absolutely deserves to be

01:44:41.149 –> 01:44:44.989
here. Very good. All right. Sound the police

01:44:44.989 –> 01:44:50.409
siren. Cause we have a tie coming up. 84. We

01:44:50.409 –> 01:44:52.210
were floating around the universe for the past

01:44:52.210 –> 01:44:56.029
20 years. Ooh, we’re passing Earth again. Push

01:44:56.029 –> 01:45:05.029
the button! Oh, we’re wasting time. What is your

01:45:05.029 –> 01:45:11.050
weakness? Well… Dum -dum -dum! Never tell the

01:45:11.050 –> 01:45:13.670
villain how to trap you in a cage! You probably

01:45:13.670 –> 01:45:16.560
shouldn’t have helped us build it either. I know,

01:45:16.699 –> 01:45:19.359
dumb! Right, that’s right. We have a tie here

01:45:19.359 –> 01:45:21.899
and we need to determine which one is 84 and

01:45:21.899 –> 01:45:24.579
which one is 83. Let’s call it the Battle of

01:45:24.579 –> 01:45:27.659
the 90s because these both came out in the 90s

01:45:27.659 –> 01:45:29.579
within two years of each other. One of them 1993,

01:45:30.020 –> 01:45:34.579
one of them 1995. One of them was nominated for

01:45:34.579 –> 01:45:37.560
over 11 different awards and did show up on three

01:45:37.560 –> 01:45:39.279
of the nine lists that we looked at. The other

01:45:39.279 –> 01:45:41.680
one was nominated for five awards and showed

01:45:41.680 –> 01:45:44.859
up on five of the nine lists. that we looked

01:45:44.859 –> 01:45:48.939
at. They both were on 15 lists total. One of

01:45:48.939 –> 01:45:52.659
them has risen dramatically. We’re almost talking

01:45:52.659 –> 01:45:56.880
Speed Racer here. This one has come from being

01:45:56.880 –> 01:46:02.300
ranked 289th last time to being in this spot

01:46:02.300 –> 01:46:04.859
where it is now. The other one has actually fallen

01:46:04.859 –> 01:46:11.560
from 57th down to either 83rd or 84th. So one

01:46:11.560 –> 01:46:14.039
with a drop, one with a tremendous rise. It’s

01:46:14.039 –> 01:46:16.659
a battle between the kids WB and Nickelodeon.

01:46:16.680 –> 01:46:18.119
I feel like I know where Steve’s going to go

01:46:18.119 –> 01:46:20.579
with this one. I’m not sure with Mike specifically

01:46:20.579 –> 01:46:25.279
yet, but this is a battle between Rocco’s modern

01:46:25.279 –> 01:46:30.619
life and Freakazoid. Freakazoid all day. Freakazoid.

01:46:31.460 –> 01:46:34.359
Fuck Rocco’s modern life. Freakazoid all day.

01:46:34.979 –> 01:46:38.720
Tell me how you really feel, Mike. he did violent

01:46:38.720 –> 01:46:42.800
they got violent and vulgar there for look look

01:46:42.800 –> 01:46:46.619
Rocco is great Rocco is amazing but Rocco can

01:46:46.619 –> 01:46:50.199
take the lower number it’s fine Rocco’s modern

01:46:50.199 –> 01:46:52.399
life did get more awards like I said 11 to 5

01:46:52.399 –> 01:46:57.939
and was on for more episodes Freakazoid was the

01:46:57.939 –> 01:47:01.260
one that dropped 26 spots it went from 57th last

01:47:01.260 –> 01:47:03.460
time to what looks like it’s going to be 83rd

01:47:03.460 –> 01:47:05.420
this time whereas Rocco’s modern life was trying

01:47:05.420 –> 01:47:09.829
to make the uphill battle from 289th to 84th.

01:47:09.909 –> 01:47:12.930
Steve, what’s your thoughts overall? So, I mean,

01:47:13.029 –> 01:47:16.770
Rocko’s Modern Life was okay. Like, it wasn’t

01:47:16.770 –> 01:47:19.409
one of those shows I enjoyed particularly. And

01:47:19.409 –> 01:47:21.569
again, Nickelodeon was really weird around that

01:47:21.569 –> 01:47:24.229
time. It was, I think, around the time I was

01:47:24.229 –> 01:47:28.430
starting to get out of Nickelodeon. And I more

01:47:28.430 –> 01:47:30.989
so put it on out of just boredom. Never loved

01:47:30.989 –> 01:47:33.109
the animation and the show was kind of bland.

01:47:33.819 –> 01:47:36.079
There really wasn’t a whole lot going on with

01:47:36.079 –> 01:47:41.279
it. While it still has a positive reception,

01:47:41.680 –> 01:47:43.859
we did get a lot of good voice actors out of

01:47:43.859 –> 01:47:49.199
it. Carlos, Alice Rocky, Charlie Adler, Tom Kenny.

01:47:50.140 –> 01:47:53.260
This was basically a pipeline for not just the

01:47:53.260 –> 01:47:56.100
voice actors, but the creators that were involved

01:47:56.100 –> 01:47:58.000
with Rocko’s Modern Life. A lot of them went

01:47:58.000 –> 01:48:00.840
on to be involved with Spongebob. So this was

01:48:00.840 –> 01:48:03.859
kind of like a talent pipeline for SpongeBob

01:48:03.859 –> 01:48:07.600
SquarePants. And I know it was seen as like one

01:48:07.600 –> 01:48:10.359
of the most subversive or satirical shows of

01:48:10.359 –> 01:48:12.560
its time as well. I didn’t grow up watching it.

01:48:13.180 –> 01:48:19.199
So it’s a good show, but it came out around the

01:48:19.199 –> 01:48:21.720
same time as like Angry Beavers and Ren and Stimpy

01:48:21.720 –> 01:48:24.619
and Real Monsters and CatDog and Tablam and Rugrats

01:48:24.619 –> 01:48:27.100
and Doug. And I mean, there was a lot of overlap

01:48:27.100 –> 01:48:29.020
between these. And then that’s about where I

01:48:29.020 –> 01:48:34.270
kind of. got off that ride when, you know, that,

01:48:34.390 –> 01:48:37.890
that era. And so I, while I enjoyed it, I didn’t

01:48:37.890 –> 01:48:42.569
love it. Freakazoid on the other hand, I watched

01:48:42.569 –> 01:48:47.130
that this morning. I love that show. Like I love

01:48:47.130 –> 01:48:51.029
the, the zaniness. I love the song is, is so

01:48:51.029 –> 01:48:55.069
fun. Yeah. The relax. So vision, the, you know,

01:48:55.069 –> 01:48:59.569
at Asner playing Cosgrove and, and, uh, Like,

01:48:59.569 –> 01:49:02.710
hey, Frank, I want to go get ice cream. Oh, hi.

01:49:03.029 –> 01:49:07.050
You know, and or, you know, just all the antics

01:49:07.050 –> 01:49:13.430
you had the lobe, which was. The voice actor

01:49:13.430 –> 01:49:20.310
that plays. Rachel Ghoul. Oh, David Warner. Yeah,

01:49:20.329 –> 01:49:25.250
David Warner’s in it. You have Khan from Star

01:49:25.250 –> 01:49:30.130
Trek in it. As Gutierrez. Ricardo Montalban.

01:49:30.289 –> 01:49:32.590
Yes. Yeah. My brain was space and I was like,

01:49:32.630 –> 01:49:35.409
I know their character. Yeah, I knew you would.

01:49:36.109 –> 01:49:38.750
So anyways, I just love this show. This it’s

01:49:38.750 –> 01:49:42.050
got 100 % rating on Rotten Tomatoes 7 .5 on IMDb.

01:49:42.229 –> 01:49:46.289
It’s. I honestly wish there was more. I’ve heard

01:49:46.289 –> 01:49:49.550
it described as proto adult swim in its tone

01:49:49.550 –> 01:49:54.090
and like early meta. And I think it also is characteristic

01:49:54.090 –> 01:49:57.890
of 90s cartoons with like the chaotic humor.

01:49:58.189 –> 01:50:00.590
I think that was one staple of 90s cartoons was

01:50:00.590 –> 01:50:03.390
just the chaotic nature of it. And as I finish

01:50:03.390 –> 01:50:07.430
my soapbox here, we did talk to Tom Ruger years

01:50:07.430 –> 01:50:10.829
ago. He was involved. Bruce Timm was involved.

01:50:11.029 –> 01:50:13.850
Spielberg, Baldini. A lot of the guys were in

01:50:13.850 –> 01:50:16.229
Batman the Animated Series involvement or Animaniacs

01:50:16.229 –> 01:50:20.310
and things like that. You also had a lot of the

01:50:20.310 –> 01:50:23.630
same crossovers of all of the other shows. Then

01:50:23.630 –> 01:50:26.970
you had… you know joe lay was the the narrator

01:50:26.970 –> 01:50:29.369
like he had a narrator they actually had an episode

01:50:29.369 –> 01:50:35.069
of teen titans go where the villain unearthed

01:50:35.069 –> 01:50:41.590
the lobe yeah and had him you know and they’re

01:50:41.590 –> 01:50:44.989
like we need to get our own you know 1990s uh

01:50:44.989 –> 01:50:47.289
hero to fight fight him and they’re like what

01:50:47.289 –> 01:50:49.489
about you know they start going across the list

01:50:49.489 –> 01:50:52.420
and Like, no, too dark to this to that. And then

01:50:52.420 –> 01:50:54.140
they finally got Freakazoid and open it. And

01:50:54.140 –> 01:50:57.520
he’s, you know, and and then he brought his announcer

01:50:57.520 –> 01:50:59.960
with him. So it was just it was hilarious. So,

01:51:00.039 –> 01:51:03.199
yeah, I love this show. Tom Ruger may or may

01:51:03.199 –> 01:51:05.739
not have rated this one fairly highly. Yeah,

01:51:05.819 –> 01:51:09.979
of course, with good reason. I mean, the man,

01:51:10.060 –> 01:51:17.359
I think I have my information correct here. Either

01:51:17.359 –> 01:51:20.720
created it or produced on it. I’m trying to see

01:51:20.720 –> 01:51:25.659
here. Developed by. Created by Bruce, Tim and

01:51:25.659 –> 01:51:29.479
Paul Dini. So, yeah, I mean, it’s all around.

01:51:29.579 –> 01:51:32.560
Yeah, absolutely. One hundred percent. And I

01:51:32.560 –> 01:51:35.560
love the show. Yeah, the show. And this is one

01:51:35.560 –> 01:51:38.039
of those things where this show debuted September

01:51:38.039 –> 01:51:45.180
9th, 95, like Kevin said. And last season only

01:51:45.180 –> 01:51:51.489
had two seasons. Are you guys sad that it dropped

01:51:51.489 –> 01:51:56.069
from 57 to 83? A little bit, but we have no idea

01:51:56.069 –> 01:51:59.689
what else is coming. Agreed. And I ranked mine

01:51:59.689 –> 01:52:02.750
at 35. It didn’t make the countdown, so it’s

01:52:02.750 –> 01:52:04.729
there. It did. And Rockwell’s Modern Life has

01:52:04.729 –> 01:52:06.210
joined the countdown, which didn’t happen 15

01:52:06.210 –> 01:52:08.329
years ago. So I guess the Nickelodeon fans out

01:52:08.329 –> 01:52:10.590
there should be happy about that. Yeah, exactly.

01:52:11.090 –> 01:52:13.229
So, you know, they’re both here. We just had

01:52:13.229 –> 01:52:15.859
to decide which one goes first. Right. or it

01:52:15.859 –> 01:52:17.920
goes higher, which is, in this case, Freakazoid.

01:52:18.159 –> 01:52:20.359
And, you know, the cool thing about this show

01:52:20.359 –> 01:52:24.439
is it’s basically a kid, Dexter, who is a 16,

01:52:24.560 –> 01:52:28.859
17 -year -old geek. Basically, he draws this

01:52:28.859 –> 01:52:32.500
character. The character comes to life. No, he

01:52:32.500 –> 01:52:34.520
actually punches in a code that was a computer

01:52:34.520 –> 01:52:36.779
blade with the processor, and he gets sucked

01:52:36.779 –> 01:52:40.199
into the computer. Oh, yeah, that’s what it is.

01:52:40.279 –> 01:52:43.909
And then he goes, ah, freak out! That’s right.

01:52:43.989 –> 01:52:45.909
That’s right. Yeah, you’re right. You’re right.

01:52:46.390 –> 01:52:48.609
All right, Mike, can you do me a favor? Yeah.

01:52:49.369 –> 01:52:51.729
Can you go ahead and ring that alarm again? No.

01:52:52.390 –> 01:52:58.149
Because we got another tie coming up. 82. Talk

01:52:58.149 –> 01:53:06.479
about your ultimate rush. Who or what are you?

01:53:06.880 –> 01:53:11.119
I am Synergy, a holographic computer designed

01:53:11.119 –> 01:53:13.659
to be the ultimate audiovisual entertainment

01:53:13.659 –> 01:53:17.680
synthesizer. All right, we have to settle another

01:53:17.680 –> 01:53:22.720
tie between the spots of 82 and 81 here. I guess

01:53:22.720 –> 01:53:24.520
we can call this the last time we had the Battle

01:53:24.520 –> 01:53:26.699
of the 90s. We’ll call this the Battle of Marvel,

01:53:26.859 –> 01:53:29.619
I guess, in a way. But that’s going to not be

01:53:29.619 –> 01:53:31.359
it. That’s not going to seem obvious to y ‘all

01:53:31.359 –> 01:53:34.180
until I go a little bit further. Well, wait,

01:53:34.220 –> 01:53:36.199
before you go any further, I got to say, you

01:53:36.199 –> 01:53:39.520
know, 15 years ago, this would be the end of

01:53:39.520 –> 01:53:44.579
this episode. 15 years ago. Cause last time we

01:53:44.579 –> 01:53:50.119
only did 100 to 81. Oh, we’re, we’re, we pump

01:53:50.119 –> 01:53:53.239
more into these days. So, um, all right. So a

01:53:53.239 –> 01:53:56.020
battle of Marvel in a way roundabout way, these,

01:53:56.140 –> 01:53:59.750
uh, both are tied here with 855 points. One of

01:53:59.750 –> 01:54:02.229
them was on 19 lists, which is the most out of

01:54:02.229 –> 01:54:04.930
any of them today, along with Wacky Races and

01:54:04.930 –> 01:54:07.189
Super Friends. Those are the three that appeared

01:54:07.189 –> 01:54:09.890
on the most lists today. The other one only appeared

01:54:09.890 –> 01:54:12.630
on 12, which is the least amount of lists. So

01:54:12.630 –> 01:54:14.250
we have one that had the most amount of lists

01:54:14.250 –> 01:54:16.909
today, one that had the least. They were both

01:54:16.909 –> 01:54:21.810
on our original top 100. One of them has fallen

01:54:21.810 –> 01:54:25.550
about 26 spots, depending on the outcome of this

01:54:25.550 –> 01:54:28.640
tiebreak. The other has actually one of our two

01:54:28.640 –> 01:54:33.100
shows that has risen. So it is going to be higher

01:54:33.100 –> 01:54:35.899
or more lower ranked, whatever you want to say.

01:54:35.939 –> 01:54:38.119
It’s going to be better ranked than it was last

01:54:38.119 –> 01:54:41.420
time. We’re comparing two different shows, one

01:54:41.420 –> 01:54:45.880
from 2008 and one from, is that right? Our third

01:54:45.880 –> 01:54:51.640
show from 1985. So we are comparing, I don’t

01:54:51.640 –> 01:54:53.619
know how you do this. They are both Marvel in

01:54:53.619 –> 01:54:55.340
a way, but I don’t know how you compare these

01:54:55.340 –> 01:54:58.770
two shows. So we have to decide between the Spectacular

01:54:58.770 –> 01:55:05.449
Spider -Man from 2008 and Jem from 1985. Sunbow.

01:55:05.770 –> 01:55:08.729
Yeah. Marvel slash Sunbow. So that’s what I did

01:55:08.729 –> 01:55:11.649
there. So we have Jem and the Spectacular Spider

01:55:11.649 –> 01:55:13.970
-Man. I’ll go first real quick. A lot of people

01:55:13.970 –> 01:55:16.569
do say that Spectacular Spider -Man is one of

01:55:16.569 –> 01:55:20.369
the best Spider -Man adaptations that has very

01:55:20.369 –> 01:55:23.409
tight storytelling and serialization, some big

01:55:23.409 –> 01:55:26.470
long -term villain arcs. possibly one of the

01:55:26.470 –> 01:55:30.770
best, if not the best Spider -Man show. Gem did

01:55:30.770 –> 01:55:34.529
set some groundwork in a way. You might not think

01:55:34.529 –> 01:55:37.529
it like this, but the female -led, music -driven

01:55:37.529 –> 01:55:40.149
storytelling was not really a thing before that.

01:55:40.210 –> 01:55:42.470
We do get some examples of that throughout time

01:55:42.470 –> 01:55:45.329
after that. Even like Steven Universe more recently

01:55:45.329 –> 01:55:47.149
kind of had a more music -driven storytelling.

01:55:47.229 –> 01:55:49.510
You could make some comparisons to Phineas and

01:55:49.510 –> 01:55:52.409
Ferb in a way. but obviously this is more of

01:55:52.409 –> 01:55:54.869
a female led eighties soap opera, sci -fi glam

01:55:54.869 –> 01:55:57.869
rock. It did have a cult following, but then

01:55:57.869 –> 01:56:00.130
we got to go down the line of, do we value like

01:56:00.130 –> 01:56:02.750
the cult following more or the more universal

01:56:02.750 –> 01:56:05.649
consensus quality and things of that nature?

01:56:05.869 –> 01:56:08.869
Um, it was ahead of its time and format and branding.

01:56:09.329 –> 01:56:11.729
So, uh, Mike, I’ll let you go first spectacular

01:56:11.729 –> 01:56:14.550
Spider -Man or gem. And they were both on our

01:56:14.550 –> 01:56:16.289
countdown last time. They will both be on our

01:56:16.289 –> 01:56:17.649
countdown this time. What are your thoughts?

01:56:22.150 –> 01:56:24.689
As someone who may or may not have hosted a podcast

01:56:24.689 –> 01:56:26.970
that reviewed all of the episodes of Jeff. And

01:56:26.970 –> 01:56:29.229
interviewed the voice actors. Plus the comics.

01:56:29.590 –> 01:56:33.909
And the writer. Well, not just the writer, the

01:56:33.909 –> 01:56:37.430
creator. Literally, Christy Marks, the creator.

01:56:37.670 –> 01:56:38.529
I don’t think you have a choice on this one,

01:56:38.609 –> 01:56:40.229
Mike. I think you have to vote one way or people

01:56:40.229 –> 01:56:41.770
are going to come after you. I know, I know.

01:56:41.850 –> 01:56:46.069
Well, here’s the thing. I’m actually on the Spectacular

01:56:46.069 –> 01:56:48.630
Spider -Man page of Wikipedia. And here’s the

01:56:48.630 –> 01:56:52.289
thing, folks. I have never seen more than three

01:56:52.289 –> 01:56:55.029
episodes of the spectacular Spider -Man because

01:56:55.029 –> 01:56:58.170
I’ve never dedicated the time to checking it

01:56:58.170 –> 01:57:02.470
out. Even though, even though I’ve interviewed

01:57:02.470 –> 01:57:05.710
Josh Keaton, who was the voice of Peter Parker

01:57:05.710 –> 01:57:08.869
slash Spider -Man in that series, I think once

01:57:08.869 –> 01:57:12.970
or twice, maybe I need to go check that series

01:57:12.970 –> 01:57:18.270
out. So yeah, no, my vote for. tiebreaker definitely

01:57:18.270 –> 01:57:21.750
goes jim has to get the higher slot because look

01:57:21.750 –> 01:57:27.770
jim was groundbreaking for 1985 like there were

01:57:27.770 –> 01:57:31.670
there were girls cartoons but there were no girls

01:57:31.670 –> 01:57:37.510
action cartoons these are jim and the holograms

01:57:37.510 –> 01:57:41.770
and the misfits it’s literally the battle of

01:57:41.770 –> 01:57:50.439
the bands you have jim Kimber, Aja, Shana. Who

01:57:50.439 –> 01:57:54.819
am I missing? Kimber, Aja, Shana. Was it Rhea?

01:57:55.319 –> 01:57:58.539
I think that’s five of them. You got Jim and

01:57:58.539 –> 01:58:01.500
the Holograms. You got that band. You got the

01:58:01.500 –> 01:58:04.520
Misfits with Pizazz and Stormer and all them.

01:58:05.039 –> 01:58:08.279
You got them fighting over all this stuff. And

01:58:08.279 –> 01:58:12.039
it’s not just piddly stuff. It’s over music contracts.

01:58:12.340 –> 01:58:15.909
It’s over this. You’ve got… It’s just such

01:58:15.909 –> 01:58:19.609
a great, great, amazing show. And we did a whole

01:58:19.609 –> 01:58:25.130
podcast in 2015 to celebrate the. I think that’s

01:58:25.130 –> 01:58:28.289
30th anniversary. Yeah. 30th anniversary called

01:58:28.289 –> 01:58:30.670
Showtime Synergy here on the Geekcast Radio Network.

01:58:31.170 –> 01:58:33.789
We got a chance to interview Christy Marks. I

01:58:33.789 –> 01:58:35.550
think we’ve interviewed her like two or three

01:58:35.550 –> 01:58:37.810
times, but we got a chance to interview her that

01:58:37.810 –> 01:58:40.470
for the first time. Maybe that actually, no,

01:58:40.510 –> 01:58:44.430
that was the second time. No, it wasn’t. we did

01:58:44.430 –> 01:58:47.590
it for beast wars i think i thought it was the

01:58:47.590 –> 01:58:52.670
same trip so i the point is my vote goes jim

01:58:52.670 –> 01:58:56.149
first and then spider -man second all right so

01:58:56.149 –> 01:58:58.050
i will say one thing i understand what your point

01:58:58.050 –> 01:59:00.329
was as far as girls cartoons in the 80s because

01:59:00.329 –> 01:59:01.829
we did have a lot of rainbow bright strawberry

01:59:01.829 –> 01:59:06.590
shortcake and things of that nature i have to

01:59:06.590 –> 01:59:08.810
correct you before we get axes thrown at us because

01:59:08.810 –> 01:59:11.710
you said that it was the first female action

01:59:11.710 –> 01:59:15.029
cartoon and uh you may have been forgetting another

01:59:15.029 –> 01:59:18.569
1985 series called shira that also uh was in

01:59:18.569 –> 01:59:22.869
existence at this point so okay but yes no i

01:59:22.869 –> 01:59:26.590
want you to get hurt as as okay october september

01:59:26.590 –> 01:59:29.810
they were out at the same time okay yes it wasn’t

01:59:29.810 –> 01:59:34.210
the first but it was the there’s a difference

01:59:34.210 –> 01:59:39.949
what i mean by the first female -led action cartoon

01:59:39.949 –> 01:59:48.369
shira is fantasy it’s i don’t know it also kind

01:59:48.369 –> 01:59:50.869
of dogpiles on he -man whereas this is kind of

01:59:50.869 –> 01:59:53.670
standalone right i’m just saying you said you

01:59:53.670 –> 01:59:55.710
said female action and shira will be the thing

01:59:55.710 –> 01:59:58.090
that comes to most people’s mind fine i get it

01:59:58.090 –> 02:00:00.689
i i compare it more to like a precursor it’s

02:00:00.689 –> 02:00:03.069
like an 80s cartoon musical version of like beverly

02:00:03.069 –> 02:00:05.720
hills 90210 or Melrose Place, or something like

02:00:05.720 –> 02:00:09.800
that. Yeah, what I mean by it is real world.

02:00:10.279 –> 02:00:12.420
Okay. Steve, where are you falling on this debate?

02:00:14.960 –> 02:00:20.060
I’m falling on Spider -Man. Well, I mean, you

02:00:20.060 –> 02:00:23.319
gotta figure too, like, Jem was not my target

02:00:23.319 –> 02:00:25.699
audience, didn’t grow up with it, and also…

02:00:25.699 –> 02:00:28.539
Weren’t even born when it was released. Well,

02:00:28.619 –> 02:00:34.619
whatever. That being said… It’s not it’s not

02:00:34.619 –> 02:00:37.319
a show that even I I don’t even care for it.

02:00:39.619 –> 02:00:43.920
On on the now, like watching it for free, like

02:00:43.920 –> 02:00:46.939
Spider -Man, like I feel like is more universal

02:00:46.939 –> 02:00:50.520
or more universally watched, and especially this

02:00:50.520 –> 02:00:53.859
show, because it was also kind of geared towards

02:00:53.859 –> 02:00:58.140
the young, the new viewers, older viewers. It

02:00:58.140 –> 02:01:00.140
kind of played in all the realms, kind of similar

02:01:00.140 –> 02:01:03.939
to a lot of other Spider -Man series. And then

02:01:03.939 –> 02:01:10.300
again, you kind of have some of the same people

02:01:10.300 –> 02:01:13.439
involved that that later did like Young Justice.

02:01:13.520 –> 02:01:18.819
And so I’m going with this like it’s just more

02:01:18.819 –> 02:01:22.340
enjoyable. It’s more of a different flavor of

02:01:22.340 –> 02:01:28.380
the. Spider -Man, the animated series show, though.

02:01:29.000 –> 02:01:31.899
Out of the ones that followed after that, this

02:01:31.899 –> 02:01:36.359
is probably my favorite. You guys forced me into

02:01:36.359 –> 02:01:38.840
a tiebreaker vote here since you both went one

02:01:38.840 –> 02:01:41.600
way and the other. And I will do a cop -out here,

02:01:41.680 –> 02:01:45.420
I guess. I don’t necessarily have a dog in the

02:01:45.420 –> 02:01:48.600
race for either one. I think it’s good that they

02:01:48.600 –> 02:01:52.680
both are represented. Obviously, Spectacular

02:01:52.680 –> 02:01:57.079
Spider -Man has fallen from 56th last time. and

02:01:57.079 –> 02:01:59.300
now and which was fairly you know is somewhat

02:01:59.300 –> 02:02:01.859
modern when we came out with it last time it

02:02:01.859 –> 02:02:05.739
just fairly new so it has fallen from 56 into

02:02:05.739 –> 02:02:10.260
the 80s whereas gem is going to rise from 87th

02:02:10.260 –> 02:02:13.399
to either 82nd or 81st so a small rise of six

02:02:13.399 –> 02:02:16.640
spots or so um depending on this so i think my

02:02:16.640 –> 02:02:18.140
cop -out though and the way i’m going to do this

02:02:18.140 –> 02:02:20.020
without having to make an informed decision on

02:02:20.020 –> 02:02:23.500
either one is and i’m not going to peruse the

02:02:23.500 –> 02:02:26.470
list to see what is and what’s not going to show

02:02:26.470 –> 02:02:29.590
i haven’t memorized it yet but i know last time

02:02:29.590 –> 02:02:32.090
when we did this list 15 years ago that we had

02:02:32.090 –> 02:02:35.109
like at least four spider -man entries in the

02:02:35.109 –> 02:02:38.949
top 100 so i’m gonna say that like there’s a

02:02:38.949 –> 02:02:40.470
chance that we’re gonna have some more spider

02:02:40.470 –> 02:02:43.789
-man so i’m gonna give the vote for gem just

02:02:43.789 –> 02:02:48.050
because of that so i think spider -man there

02:02:48.050 –> 02:02:50.050
may be more entries gem there will not be it’s

02:02:50.050 –> 02:02:53.279
the only it’s the only show yeah I’ll go that

02:02:53.279 –> 02:02:57.119
way, I guess. But I don’t have a direct opinion

02:02:57.119 –> 02:02:58.960
on which one is better than the other. I have

02:02:58.960 –> 02:03:00.659
not watched either one extensively enough to

02:03:00.659 –> 02:03:04.619
make that opinion. So, all right. So we’ll go

02:03:04.619 –> 02:03:07.079
with Spectacular Spider -Man at 82, Gem at 81,

02:03:07.340 –> 02:03:11.060
which takes us to our next entrant, which is

02:03:11.060 –> 02:03:13.420
going to be our third time visiting the last

02:03:13.420 –> 02:03:18.579
15 years. That was a 2 ,000 -year -old historical

02:03:18.579 –> 02:03:22.140
treasure. Whoops. All right. Another chance to

02:03:22.140 –> 02:03:24.439
talk about a, I guess, quote unquote, more modern

02:03:24.439 –> 02:03:27.960
show that appeared in the last time bracket that

02:03:27.960 –> 02:03:31.560
we were considering. So our number 80 pick, going

02:03:31.560 –> 02:03:33.420
back to Nickelodeon. We’ve said that name a lot

02:03:33.420 –> 02:03:36.560
today, actually. So we’ve had Nickelodeon representation

02:03:36.560 –> 02:03:39.520
with Danger Mouse, Invader Zim, and Rocko’s Modern

02:03:39.520 –> 02:03:41.260
Life. We’re going to do that once again here

02:03:41.260 –> 02:03:45.479
with number 80 from 2012. The highly acclaimed,

02:03:45.479 –> 02:03:49.319
yet sometimes controversial, The Legend of Korra.

02:03:51.200 –> 02:03:54.819
spinoff or extended version of avatar the last

02:03:54.819 –> 02:03:58.060
airbender expands avatar into some more politics

02:03:58.060 –> 02:04:00.859
and things like that i know it tackles some more

02:04:00.859 –> 02:04:04.100
deep content like trauma and things of that nature

02:04:04.100 –> 02:04:05.739
i know it’s debated though so i think we’ll get

02:04:05.739 –> 02:04:08.159
people on both sides of the fence that say either

02:04:08.159 –> 02:04:10.140
we should have this higher or we shouldn’t have

02:04:10.140 –> 02:04:12.460
it ranked at all we obviously did not rank it

02:04:12.460 –> 02:04:14.979
last time since it didn’t really exist this time

02:04:14.979 –> 02:04:17.420
we’re ranking it at number 80 mike what do you

02:04:17.420 –> 02:04:22.770
think of the legend of korra When did this release?

02:04:23.149 –> 02:04:28.430
2012. I tried watching this at the time, and

02:04:28.430 –> 02:04:32.229
I couldn’t get into it. It is nominated for more

02:04:32.229 –> 02:04:34.029
awards than any show we’ll talk about today.

02:04:34.109 –> 02:04:37.010
It has over 16 nominations for different awards.

02:04:37.390 –> 02:04:41.970
Yeah. I did actually try watching this. I think

02:04:41.970 –> 02:04:44.270
I got through maybe one and a half episodes,

02:04:44.369 –> 02:04:49.689
and it just wasn’t my thing. Steve, what do you

02:04:49.689 –> 02:04:55.890
think? I did watch and while the animation is

02:04:55.890 –> 02:04:57.750
great and the voice acting is great, I don’t

02:04:57.750 –> 02:05:02.130
think I really understood it enough to continue

02:05:02.130 –> 02:05:07.789
with it. It is on Paramount and some of the other

02:05:07.789 –> 02:05:12.609
different platforms at this point. But it’s I

02:05:12.609 –> 02:05:16.750
had to like I didn’t recall that it was a continuation

02:05:16.750 –> 02:05:18.810
of Avatar, even though I knew it was kind of

02:05:18.810 –> 02:05:23.619
the same universe. And it’s set 70 years after

02:05:23.619 –> 02:05:29.000
Avatar, the last airbender. So I think that’s

02:05:29.000 –> 02:05:30.899
part of why I didn’t really understand it was

02:05:30.899 –> 02:05:33.039
because I didn’t have the backstory of the original.

02:05:33.140 –> 02:05:35.760
And I, I did watch part of the original, but

02:05:35.760 –> 02:05:40.220
I think again, it just kind of came down to just

02:05:40.220 –> 02:05:43.060
wasn’t something that totally resonated. And

02:05:43.060 –> 02:05:45.079
maybe I just need to go back and rewatch. I don’t

02:05:45.079 –> 02:05:49.399
know. But based on the little bit I’ve seen,

02:05:50.189 –> 02:05:53.310
I could see where people would find it good.

02:05:53.409 –> 02:05:55.689
And especially when we have a plethora of shows

02:05:55.689 –> 02:05:59.609
that came out after 2012 that had kind of an

02:05:59.609 –> 02:06:02.810
art style that I’ll just say that I totally dislike

02:06:02.810 –> 02:06:06.850
more than some of the Nintendo or the Nickelodeon

02:06:06.850 –> 02:06:11.949
content prior to this. So I think we were at

02:06:11.949 –> 02:06:15.409
like peak Nickelodeon animation here in 2012

02:06:15.409 –> 02:06:17.729
between this and like Turtles and some of the

02:06:17.729 –> 02:06:20.100
other shows that kind of showed up. So I can

02:06:20.100 –> 02:06:22.840
see it being here. It’s not one that I personally

02:06:22.840 –> 02:06:26.300
listed. It feels like an interesting one, too,

02:06:26.359 –> 02:06:28.380
because I know there’s a ton of Avatar The Last

02:06:28.380 –> 02:06:32.300
Airbender fans following on that. But it seems

02:06:32.300 –> 02:06:33.800
like it’s a little split then when it comes to

02:06:33.800 –> 02:06:36.979
Legend of Korra. Some of them are just rabid

02:06:36.979 –> 02:06:39.039
fans of both, and I feel like some of them are

02:06:39.039 –> 02:06:42.140
more fans of Avatar versus Legend of Korra and

02:06:42.140 –> 02:06:45.399
vice versa. It’s always interesting to hear people’s

02:06:45.399 –> 02:06:47.180
take on Legend of Korra. I have not watched either

02:06:47.180 –> 02:06:50.170
one. extensively enough to like making a super

02:06:50.170 –> 02:06:54.050
well -informed opinion i do think there may be

02:06:54.050 –> 02:06:55.930
a few people that should that will say it should

02:06:55.930 –> 02:06:59.210
be higher on our list but i think i’m fine with

02:06:59.210 –> 02:07:02.609
it being on our list i don’t have a well -informed

02:07:02.609 –> 02:07:05.390
opinion of where exactly it should be but i i

02:07:05.390 –> 02:07:07.729
feel like it representation is probably warranted

02:07:07.729 –> 02:07:13.050
so all right that takes us into our the next

02:07:13.050 –> 02:07:15.390
entry that will be in part of our top 80 let’s

02:07:15.390 –> 02:07:27.300
see where we go next We haven’t had a ton of

02:07:27.300 –> 02:07:32.300
shows yet from the WB. We talked about Freakazoid

02:07:32.300 –> 02:07:34.640
a little bit here, and this one technically is

02:07:34.640 –> 02:07:37.500
from Warner Brothers and I believe debuted on

02:07:37.500 –> 02:07:41.300
the Cartoon Network from 2008. Let’s get our

02:07:41.300 –> 02:07:45.539
second, I believe our second DC cartoon here.

02:07:46.319 –> 02:07:51.020
it fell from 71 last time 15 years ago to 79

02:07:51.020 –> 02:07:53.520
so it dropped eight spots not a huge drop but

02:07:53.520 –> 02:07:56.880
a small drop here for batman the brave and the

02:07:56.880 –> 02:08:00.920
bold what do you think of batman the brave and

02:08:00.920 –> 02:08:06.340
the bold being here at number 79 there are two

02:08:06.340 –> 02:08:11.380
things that i love about this show the batman

02:08:11.380 –> 02:08:14.359
of xur and r which is where kevin conroy guest

02:08:14.359 –> 02:08:22.829
starred and then um peewee paul rubens as batmite

02:08:22.829 –> 02:08:27.550
and then that’s it i know it’s obviously a i

02:08:27.550 –> 02:08:30.409
believe a lot it’s a lighter take on on yeah

02:08:30.409 –> 02:08:33.210
compared to a lot of the gritty stuff which i

02:08:33.210 –> 02:08:36.050
think appealed to some folks um i think a lot

02:08:36.050 –> 02:08:37.670
of other folks say it’s like kind of like super

02:08:37.670 –> 02:08:39.170
friends where it could serve as like an introduction

02:08:39.170 –> 02:08:42.590
into the dc shows for people steve what do you

02:08:42.590 –> 02:08:44.680
think of batman the brave and the bold I don’t

02:08:44.680 –> 02:08:46.460
know. I mean, it’s it’s got a pretty good rating

02:08:46.460 –> 02:08:50.960
on like Rotten Tomatoes and IMDb. I found. This

02:08:50.960 –> 02:08:55.260
one is because I think around this time. I was

02:08:55.260 –> 02:09:00.840
getting some of the DVDs to review from Warner

02:09:00.840 –> 02:09:06.420
Brothers and. It may have been shortly after

02:09:06.420 –> 02:09:10.100
this, but this was kind of the gateway show that

02:09:10.100 –> 02:09:15.010
I showed my kids. OK. Because it was a lighter

02:09:15.010 –> 02:09:19.550
tone, but it still kind of gave the vibe. I feel

02:09:19.550 –> 02:09:21.989
like it kind of mixed some of the animated series

02:09:21.989 –> 02:09:25.050
with the 60s hokiness of the Adam West Batman.

02:09:25.489 –> 02:09:27.829
Yeah, very much so. And so you kind of got this

02:09:27.829 –> 02:09:33.149
nice mesh of the two. And it kind of had a retro

02:09:33.149 –> 02:09:35.949
vibe to it, but it was fun. And it was kind of

02:09:35.949 –> 02:09:39.170
like a Super Friends because Batman and his amazing

02:09:39.170 –> 02:09:43.800
friends. He constantly had other people showing

02:09:43.800 –> 02:09:48.359
up and guest starring on his show. And so I feel

02:09:48.359 –> 02:09:52.579
like this. I feel like the fact that it’s on

02:09:52.579 –> 02:09:57.439
here is great. Yeah, it’s not in the same positioning,

02:09:57.539 –> 02:10:00.420
but it’s in the same realm, which goes to show

02:10:00.420 –> 02:10:02.500
that it’s still deserving of being in that same

02:10:02.500 –> 02:10:05.600
bracket, even though it dropped. And there’s

02:10:05.600 –> 02:10:07.140
been other shows that have come out since. So,

02:10:07.140 –> 02:10:11.159
I mean, I can see why it would drop like. myself

02:10:11.159 –> 02:10:14.380
i had it in the 20s and both my kids had it somewhere

02:10:14.380 –> 02:10:17.319
in the 20s i think and then so i mean that’s

02:10:17.319 –> 02:10:20.539
probably part of where it’s at but also always

02:10:20.539 –> 02:10:22.739
adds to that interesting debate between like

02:10:22.739 –> 02:10:25.779
a franchise like how many spots does someone

02:10:25.779 –> 02:10:29.319
have for a specific franchise right or hero or

02:10:29.319 –> 02:10:31.279
a superhero or whatever it might be like do you

02:10:31.279 –> 02:10:34.140
only have room for one show from this franchise

02:10:34.140 –> 02:10:35.579
do you have room for two do you have room for

02:10:35.579 –> 02:10:37.640
three you know how many batman shows will you

02:10:37.640 –> 02:10:39.810
give a spot to And I think some people pick just

02:10:39.810 –> 02:10:41.609
one. Some people are willing to pick more based

02:10:41.609 –> 02:10:43.390
on the quality. So it always is an interesting

02:10:43.390 –> 02:10:46.430
thing to try to get inside people’s heads on

02:10:46.430 –> 02:10:49.890
how they treat that overall. But I think, you

02:10:49.890 –> 02:10:53.210
know, it’s 71 and now 79. It’s stayed pretty

02:10:53.210 –> 02:10:55.869
close to the same spot. So like you said, it

02:10:55.869 –> 02:10:57.970
has some consistency and staying power, I guess

02:10:57.970 –> 02:10:59.789
you could say. All right. Next up, we’re going

02:10:59.789 –> 02:11:03.090
to go to our second most modern show on the entire

02:11:03.090 –> 02:11:07.100
countdown. 78. Come on. Knock it off, Todd. I

02:11:07.100 –> 02:11:08.760
think Amber’s been pretty clear about how she

02:11:08.760 –> 02:11:13.380
feels. I’m nothing like my dad. So we already

02:11:13.380 –> 02:11:16.560
had X -Men 97, which was from 2024. We’re going

02:11:16.560 –> 02:11:18.760
to go back a couple years earlier than that to

02:11:18.760 –> 02:11:22.039
our second most recent show here. This one is

02:11:22.039 –> 02:11:26.300
from 2021. You could see it on Amazon Prime.

02:11:26.960 –> 02:11:29.079
Speaking of channels, I guess we’ll just go with

02:11:29.079 –> 02:11:30.659
the streaming network as it was. Obviously, it

02:11:30.659 –> 02:11:32.739
wasn’t ranked last time around. We’re going with…

02:11:33.100 –> 02:11:35.939
I guess another superhero show, so to speak with

02:11:35.939 –> 02:11:40.159
invincible here at number 78 adult superhero

02:11:40.159 –> 02:11:43.239
animation, almost on a prestige level, definitely

02:11:43.239 –> 02:11:46.199
subverting some Marvel and DC comic tropes, a

02:11:46.199 –> 02:11:48.520
lot of shock value, things of that nature kind

02:11:48.520 –> 02:11:51.920
of use more like a comic arc than a episodic

02:11:51.920 –> 02:11:54.579
TV show. So I think we’ll get a little bit of

02:11:54.579 –> 02:11:59.020
the same people that comment on X -Men 97 may

02:11:59.020 –> 02:12:01.300
have similar comments on this one. Like, is it

02:12:01.300 –> 02:12:03.840
too recent to be on here? Or is the quality good

02:12:03.840 –> 02:12:05.619
enough where it warrants it? Is there recency

02:12:05.619 –> 02:12:07.060
bias? All those different things will come into

02:12:07.060 –> 02:12:09.079
play. Mike, what do you think of Invincible being

02:12:09.079 –> 02:12:12.420
here at number 78? So I’ve never read the comic

02:12:12.420 –> 02:12:14.960
and I’ve never watched the show. I’ve heard nothing

02:12:14.960 –> 02:12:20.239
but good things about the show. I’ve heard people

02:12:20.239 –> 02:12:23.439
say nothing but mixed things about the comic.

02:12:23.880 –> 02:12:28.579
Now, Robert Kirkman is someone I have been reading

02:12:28.579 –> 02:12:34.789
comics from because he is. the main creator behind

02:12:34.789 –> 02:12:37.890
the Energon universe, which has Transformers,

02:12:37.890 –> 02:12:41.149
G .I. Joe, Void Rivals, and now it’ll have Mask

02:12:41.149 –> 02:12:44.050
coming up here in June with the launch of Mask.

02:12:44.789 –> 02:12:48.949
He did create Invincible, I believe, off the

02:12:48.949 –> 02:12:55.510
top of my head. Yep. And this is, you know, developed

02:12:55.510 –> 02:12:59.760
by him and everything else, but I just… This

02:12:59.760 –> 02:13:02.119
is another one that is not on my radar because

02:13:02.119 –> 02:13:07.720
I never really got into the original source material.

02:13:08.100 –> 02:13:14.659
And I don’t know. It just doesn’t. Again, I use

02:13:14.659 –> 02:13:17.460
trailers because that’s what trailers are for.

02:13:17.640 –> 02:13:20.779
They’re advertisements. You either watch them

02:13:20.779 –> 02:13:22.640
or you don’t watch them. But when you watch them,

02:13:22.659 –> 02:13:25.880
you either like the thing or you don’t. And when

02:13:25.880 –> 02:13:27.739
I looked at it, I’m like, yeah, that’s not for

02:13:27.739 –> 02:13:33.069
me. i’ve never actually again doing all the research

02:13:33.069 –> 02:13:36.170
doing for this thing it’s like whoops missed

02:13:36.170 –> 02:13:39.250
it i mean i i think this is not one that’s going

02:13:39.250 –> 02:13:40.689
to be for everybody i don’t think you would like

02:13:40.689 –> 02:13:42.729
this one mike just because i have other similar

02:13:42.729 –> 02:13:44.369
things that it reminds me of that i know you

02:13:44.369 –> 02:13:47.250
don’t like um i watched the first few episodes

02:13:47.250 –> 02:13:49.430
of it and it was definitely enough that if i

02:13:49.430 –> 02:13:51.510
have time at some point i would go back and watch

02:13:51.510 –> 02:13:54.489
it in full because i think it is very high quality

02:13:54.489 –> 02:13:56.350
as far as like how it’s made and it seems like

02:13:56.350 –> 02:13:58.630
it’s got some crazy stuff and a lot of shock

02:13:58.909 –> 02:14:00.449
value that definitely does go into it so i’m

02:14:00.449 –> 02:14:01.970
intrigued to see like what all they do with it

02:14:01.970 –> 02:14:04.069
but again i’ve only watched the first few episodes

02:14:04.069 –> 02:14:06.729
but i do know it’s got a lot of love from people

02:14:06.729 –> 02:14:09.590
in the last five years um so i’m not surprised

02:14:09.590 –> 02:14:13.229
that there was uh 15 people that decided to put

02:14:13.229 –> 02:14:15.729
it on their list steve what do you think really

02:14:15.729 –> 02:14:18.270
quick before steve goes i will say you would

02:14:18.270 –> 02:14:22.489
think that having uh jk simmons in this would

02:14:22.489 –> 02:14:27.500
get me but it just didn’t unfortunately All of

02:14:27.500 –> 02:14:32.000
the clips I’ve seen of this and the few episodes

02:14:32.000 –> 02:14:35.460
I’ve watched, I did not get into this, didn’t

02:14:35.460 –> 02:14:39.479
care for it. Now, the funny thing is, over the

02:14:39.479 –> 02:14:47.859
last week, Rob Liefeld has created a storm on

02:14:47.859 –> 02:14:51.739
social media. Like he does. Deadpool creator,

02:14:51.960 –> 02:14:57.949
because he said… that like he stirred the pot

02:14:57.949 –> 02:15:02.170
more or less because um he says i love invincible

02:15:02.170 –> 02:15:04.550
it’s a fantastic show deserving of all of its

02:15:04.550 –> 02:15:07.609
incredible successes batman the animated series

02:15:07.609 –> 02:15:10.909
is the king of the hill you know aspirational

02:15:10.909 –> 02:15:18.989
work you know and uh btas has actually won emmys

02:15:18.989 –> 02:15:29.539
too And what’s funny is the, the just sheer comments

02:15:29.539 –> 02:15:35.180
on all of the social posts are hilarious because

02:15:35.180 –> 02:15:38.039
everybody is like pretty much in agreements with,

02:15:38.060 –> 02:15:42.100
with his comment. And, you know, aside from the

02:15:42.100 –> 02:15:43.819
fact, you know, some people are like, it’s different

02:15:43.819 –> 02:15:47.279
shows. It’s, you know, as good as it is, it’s

02:15:47.279 –> 02:15:50.500
not even close. Um, you know, cause Batman had,

02:15:50.920 –> 02:15:58.520
the Emmys and everything else. But yeah, he more

02:15:58.520 –> 02:16:01.939
or less said that you’re dumb if you’re saying

02:16:01.939 –> 02:16:06.380
that BTAS is better than Invincible. And just

02:16:06.380 –> 02:16:09.460
based on what I’ve seen, I kind of agree. I think

02:16:09.460 –> 02:16:11.460
that it’s great for those that are looking for

02:16:11.460 –> 02:16:14.960
that new edgy style of superhero type thing,

02:16:15.060 –> 02:16:19.560
even if some of it’s kind of the anti -hero.

02:16:20.090 –> 02:16:25.069
situations and it’s very violent it is for sure

02:16:25.069 –> 02:16:28.270
that but I think that Batman the animated series

02:16:28.270 –> 02:16:30.649
is a better show in that instance so in that

02:16:30.649 –> 02:16:33.829
instance like I will say that Amazon has done

02:16:33.829 –> 02:16:35.670
well for themselves with this being an original

02:16:35.670 –> 02:16:39.489
series and focusing on you know something entirely

02:16:39.489 –> 02:16:43.989
different in the superhero realm than what others

02:16:43.989 –> 02:16:51.329
have done both of them I can see having the notoriety

02:16:51.329 –> 02:16:54.809
based on who was introduced to it uh comparatively

02:16:54.809 –> 02:17:01.629
but i i feel like the majority of it is not going

02:17:01.629 –> 02:17:04.209
like in the long term i feel like it’ll be forgotten

02:17:04.209 –> 02:17:08.389
but again that you know time will tell because

02:17:08.389 –> 02:17:10.329
we’ve also got shows that have been there since

02:17:10.329 –> 02:17:12.790
the 60s that are still on our list so who knows

02:17:12.790 –> 02:17:16.010
but i i think for right now it fits on the list

02:17:16.520 –> 02:17:18.959
yeah we’ll have to see what time uh does to this

02:17:18.959 –> 02:17:20.379
one one way or the other i would have to watch

02:17:20.379 –> 02:17:22.420
more to give like a i would never compare it

02:17:22.420 –> 02:17:24.079
to batman the animated series in any way because

02:17:24.079 –> 02:17:25.540
i feel like it’s a different style different

02:17:25.540 –> 02:17:29.139
going for something different so i yeah i don’t

02:17:29.139 –> 02:17:32.299
even know how that was smart so it it was just

02:17:32.299 –> 02:17:35.260
interesting right so we’ll have to see how that

02:17:35.260 –> 02:17:37.620
how time plays a trick with invincible maybe

02:17:37.620 –> 02:17:40.059
15 years from now it would be different we’ll

02:17:40.059 –> 02:17:41.879
have to wait and see so i only got room for two

02:17:41.879 –> 02:17:45.049
more on this episode of our top 100 so We’ll

02:17:45.049 –> 02:17:46.850
get back to one of those final picks for today.

02:17:47.510 –> 02:17:55.430
77. All right, we’re going to go back to the

02:17:55.430 –> 02:17:58.729
80s from a cartoon from Ruby Spears. This is

02:17:58.729 –> 02:18:02.010
our second largest drop in our countdown. Now,

02:18:02.010 –> 02:18:03.649
I’m not considering shows that dropped all the

02:18:03.649 –> 02:18:05.049
way out because I didn’t do the math for how

02:18:05.049 –> 02:18:06.670
much those dropped, the ones that fell out of

02:18:06.670 –> 02:18:09.290
our countdown. But for those that actually made

02:18:09.290 –> 02:18:11.030
the countdown, we had Super Friends, which dropped

02:18:11.030 –> 02:18:15.950
52 spots. Next one has dropped 46. Those are

02:18:15.950 –> 02:18:18.170
the two biggest drops of the entire countdown.

02:18:18.530 –> 02:18:22.649
So it’s going to go from 32 all the way to 77.

02:18:23.530 –> 02:18:26.250
We’re talking about the NBC series from 1983,

02:18:26.709 –> 02:18:30.670
Alvin and the Chipmunks. So Alvin and the Chipmunks

02:18:30.670 –> 02:18:33.430
with a gigantic drop, but it still remains in

02:18:33.430 –> 02:18:37.319
the top 100 coming in here at number 77. Mike,

02:18:37.379 –> 02:18:38.799
what do you think of Alvin and the Chipmunks?

02:18:38.860 –> 02:18:40.659
It appeared on five of the nine lists we looked

02:18:40.659 –> 02:18:42.879
at, but it has dropped in the last 15 years,

02:18:42.899 –> 02:18:46.319
according to us. The show was crazy good at the

02:18:46.319 –> 02:18:54.860
time. And wow, this is eight seasons. Yeah, I

02:18:54.860 –> 02:19:01.239
don’t know. I remember watching it and I think

02:19:01.239 –> 02:19:07.180
it is good. I don’t know if it’s. this high of

02:19:07.180 –> 02:19:11.440
a spot good we had a we had a rank 32nd last

02:19:11.440 –> 02:19:15.260
time yeah i don’t know what the hell we wanted

02:19:15.260 –> 02:19:18.000
you wanted it to drop more than 50 spots yeah

02:19:18.000 –> 02:19:22.040
i know i mean for me this is the reason i ranked

02:19:22.040 –> 02:19:24.860
this pretty high i ranked this uh 57 last time

02:19:24.860 –> 02:19:27.500
or this time i mean i ranked a 57 so i did have

02:19:27.500 –> 02:19:30.340
it on this side of the 50s but uh unlike last

02:19:30.340 –> 02:19:32.620
time where we had it on the upside of the 50s

02:19:32.620 –> 02:19:35.139
but I think the thing for me is it’s, it’s very

02:19:35.139 –> 02:19:37.879
unique in an early show that really capitalized

02:19:37.879 –> 02:19:41.020
on all of the different, like, I guess you could

02:19:41.020 –> 02:19:43.420
call it like a full ecosystem for its franchise.

02:19:43.479 –> 02:19:46.700
Like it had the cartoon, it had the records or

02:19:46.700 –> 02:19:48.639
the tapes or the different things that had like

02:19:48.639 –> 02:19:51.020
the merchandise that had like, it was a massive

02:19:51.020 –> 02:19:54.659
multimedia brand in a way that no, almost nothing

02:19:54.659 –> 02:19:57.899
else before that had been, you know, with the

02:19:57.899 –> 02:20:00.059
music, with the animation, with all the different

02:20:00.059 –> 02:20:04.109
things and longevity, like I think proves, how

02:20:04.109 –> 02:20:07.889
cultural appeal has lasted with it. Like we’ve

02:20:07.889 –> 02:20:10.649
had multiple live action movies that have come

02:20:10.649 –> 02:20:13.110
out from it. Like people know who Alvin and the

02:20:13.110 –> 02:20:16.590
chipmunks are, you know, the music and like some

02:20:16.590 –> 02:20:19.549
of their albums, like are classic when it comes

02:20:19.549 –> 02:20:22.309
to the way they did the voices, the bag, the

02:20:22.309 –> 02:20:24.389
Zarians, like how they, you know, did the speed

02:20:24.389 –> 02:20:26.250
up of the voices and everything like that. Like,

02:20:26.250 –> 02:20:29.209
is there a nostalgia factor to it? Maybe a little

02:20:29.209 –> 02:20:32.629
bit, but I think just from, its uniqueness at

02:20:32.629 –> 02:20:34.250
the time like what else do you compare this to

02:20:34.250 –> 02:20:36.569
from the 80s or from almost any generation i

02:20:36.569 –> 02:20:38.750
don’t know if there’s a comparable show there

02:20:38.750 –> 02:20:41.989
isn’t so like for me that that’s why i had it

02:20:41.989 –> 02:20:44.149
ranked number 57 am i sad that it comes in here

02:20:44.149 –> 02:20:46.889
77 no i think it’s fine i don’t think it necessarily

02:20:46.889 –> 02:20:49.930
i’m shocked it dropped almost 50 spots but i’m

02:20:49.930 –> 02:20:52.229
not necessarily upset i do think it warrants

02:20:52.229 –> 02:20:55.149
a top 100 spot though yeah i think it warrants

02:20:55.149 –> 02:20:58.110
a spot i was just trying to think of some like

02:20:58.110 –> 02:21:02.709
you wanted it to drop four spots right like maybe

02:21:02.709 –> 02:21:06.129
a little like three more spots probably wanted

02:21:06.129 –> 02:21:08.510
to drop six spots so that it could be 83 and

02:21:08.510 –> 02:21:11.790
it came out in 1983 well you know that’s me and

02:21:11.790 –> 02:21:14.829
my numbers but no but i mean like i was trying

02:21:14.829 –> 02:21:17.790
to think of trying to think of the brand is what’s

02:21:17.790 –> 02:21:21.110
wrong here yeah no exactly but i was trying to

02:21:21.110 –> 02:21:24.750
think of is there another something else that

02:21:24.750 –> 02:21:27.790
i was watching at the same time that i was watching

02:21:27.790 –> 02:21:33.639
like heathcliff garfield and top cat or you know

02:21:33.639 –> 02:21:36.180
something like that i was watching inspector

02:21:36.180 –> 02:21:39.280
gadget and muppet babies and uh everything else

02:21:39.280 –> 02:21:42.940
that appeared in the early 1980s yeah but like

02:21:42.940 –> 02:21:45.040
that’s what i’m saying like i was trying to think

02:21:45.040 –> 02:21:47.360
if there was another similar thing and sadly

02:21:47.360 –> 02:21:50.440
and this is going to be strange as hell the only

02:21:50.440 –> 02:21:53.459
thing i can compare alvin to is jim and the holograms

02:21:53.459 –> 02:21:56.559
because there we go all right the music let’s

02:21:56.559 –> 02:22:00.809
move on to steve yeah I kind of agree with everything

02:22:00.809 –> 02:22:05.049
you guys have said so far on that front. I don’t

02:22:05.049 –> 02:22:07.129
really have anything else to add here, although

02:22:07.129 –> 02:22:11.549
I did enjoy the show. I feel like it kind of

02:22:11.549 –> 02:22:14.690
peaked with the movies and then it kind of faded

02:22:14.690 –> 02:22:17.170
out again. Yeah, I can see that. I’m surprised

02:22:17.170 –> 02:22:20.590
it hasn’t been… Has there been one new series?

02:22:21.770 –> 02:22:23.709
I don’t know. I’d have to check to see if there’s

02:22:23.709 –> 02:22:25.309
been any reboots. I’m surprised if there hasn’t

02:22:25.309 –> 02:22:27.180
been. Because you feel like from an animation

02:22:27.180 –> 02:22:29.959
standpoint, this would probably work again at

02:22:29.959 –> 02:22:32.459
some point from a series versus a live action

02:22:32.459 –> 02:22:36.020
movie. The movies, as cheesy and campy as they

02:22:36.020 –> 02:22:38.559
are, are not terrible from a kid’s standpoint.

02:22:38.819 –> 02:22:42.299
They work all right. I mean, it’s a typical standard

02:22:42.299 –> 02:22:45.940
kids movie trope, but it’s all right. The current

02:22:45.940 –> 02:22:52.850
series is Alvin and the Chipmunks. uh released

02:22:52.850 –> 02:22:59.030
march 30th 2015 yeah march 4th 2023 so it ended

02:22:59.030 –> 02:23:02.850
three years ago that’s the most recent series

02:23:02.850 –> 02:23:04.889
and it’s i thought i had seen some bits and pieces

02:23:04.889 –> 02:23:07.350
of something that was new yeah and it’s literally

02:23:07.350 –> 02:23:13.129
his whole name a l v i and like three n’s with

02:23:13.129 –> 02:23:16.989
exclamation points and the chipmunks i was able

02:23:16.989 –> 02:23:18.790
to get screamed in the show so that makes sense

02:23:18.790 –> 02:23:21.629
yep absolutely All right, that means there’s

02:23:21.629 –> 02:23:23.709
only time for one more today, and we’re going

02:23:23.709 –> 02:23:27.770
to go back as far back in time as we have been

02:23:27.770 –> 02:23:31.489
so far the entire countdown. 76. Here’s who.

02:23:32.649 –> 02:23:36.049
All right, number 76. We’re going all the way

02:23:36.049 –> 02:23:39.389
back into the 50s, which is a decade we have

02:23:39.389 –> 02:23:43.149
not seen yet today. So interested to see your

02:23:43.149 –> 02:23:46.809
guys’ take on this. It did appear last time on

02:23:46.809 –> 02:23:49.500
our countdown as well. Like Gem, it is one of

02:23:49.500 –> 02:23:52.819
two shows that actually rose over the last 15

02:23:52.819 –> 02:23:57.299
years. So it went from 84 to 76. We’re talking

02:23:57.299 –> 02:23:59.979
about Walter Lance’s The Woody Woodpecker Show.

02:24:00.280 –> 02:24:06.000
It debuted on ABC back in 1957, 113 episodes,

02:24:06.100 –> 02:24:07.639
if you want to call them episodes. But obviously,

02:24:07.659 –> 02:24:09.899
this is a bridge between theatrical shorts and

02:24:09.899 –> 02:24:13.239
TV animation, kind of early TV package of theatrical

02:24:13.239 –> 02:24:16.600
cartoons. And kind of shows how TV animation

02:24:16.600 –> 02:24:19.920
was built on repurposed content back in the day.

02:24:20.399 –> 02:24:25.040
Obviously, you have a not a traditional produce

02:24:25.040 –> 02:24:27.700
for TV show, but more of a distribution format.

02:24:27.940 –> 02:24:30.260
Some people might not count this as a quote unquote

02:24:30.260 –> 02:24:33.059
TV show, but I think Woody Woodpecker is one

02:24:33.059 –> 02:24:36.920
of the most iconic classic characters. So I’m

02:24:36.920 –> 02:24:39.540
fine with him being in the top 100. I had him

02:24:39.540 –> 02:24:43.059
actually ranked in the top 50. But I’m glad to

02:24:43.059 –> 02:24:46.379
see that he climbed from 84 to 76. Steve, what

02:24:46.379 –> 02:24:47.639
do you think about the Woody Woodpecker show?

02:24:47.959 –> 02:24:52.739
So let me preface it with I ranked this at 91.

02:24:53.299 –> 02:24:56.239
There we go. My children, on the other hand,

02:24:56.340 –> 02:25:03.540
my oldest ranked it at seven. Nice. And my youngest

02:25:03.540 –> 02:25:07.799
did as well. And they found it on YouTube. I

02:25:07.799 –> 02:25:10.620
like it. And so they’ve been discovering random

02:25:10.620 –> 02:25:14.219
shows that are old by YouTube or Netflix or whatever,

02:25:14.360 –> 02:25:18.219
you know, we happen to have access to. And they

02:25:18.219 –> 02:25:22.180
they were like, this show is great. Like and

02:25:22.180 –> 02:25:24.819
I was like, how did you even they’re like YouTube?

02:25:25.000 –> 02:25:32.440
And I was like. So so that that’s me prefacing

02:25:32.440 –> 02:25:35.319
it there. I do find the show very entertaining

02:25:35.319 –> 02:25:38.799
and I did enjoy it as a kid. I don’t. remember

02:25:38.799 –> 02:25:41.340
a whole lot of why i liked it nowadays because

02:25:41.340 –> 02:25:43.219
like i haven’t gone back and rewatched it just

02:25:43.219 –> 02:25:46.780
because i i used to watch it and i’ve i’ve kind

02:25:46.780 –> 02:25:51.420
of branched out to watching other things um that

02:25:51.420 –> 02:25:54.739
being said i i do feel like it has a place on

02:25:54.739 –> 02:25:56.940
this list and it has stood the test of time because

02:25:56.940 –> 02:25:59.719
it keeps coming back and it’s added in animated

02:25:59.719 –> 02:26:01.780
i think a newer animated series and it’s had

02:26:01.780 –> 02:26:05.360
a movie uh so we’ve we’ve kind of had them kind

02:26:05.360 –> 02:26:08.629
of coming back multiple times over the years

02:26:08.629 –> 02:26:12.010
so i don’t know i’m i’m happy that he made the

02:26:12.010 –> 02:26:14.790
list i did not expect this so that means with

02:26:14.790 –> 02:26:16.690
that piece of information that you revealed which

02:26:16.690 –> 02:26:18.209
i could have seen looked if i looked at all the

02:26:18.209 –> 02:26:21.750
ballots but that means that the woody woodpecker

02:26:21.750 –> 02:26:26.889
show has pulled off being on the top 10 list

02:26:26.889 –> 02:26:30.129
of both our youngest contributor and our oldest

02:26:30.129 –> 02:26:35.069
contributor that’s funny so i didn’t see that

02:26:35.069 –> 02:26:37.850
coming But Keith Scott had this in his top 10

02:26:37.850 –> 02:26:42.489
as well. Awesome. That is crazy. I think that’s

02:26:42.489 –> 02:26:44.090
awesome. So, Mike, what do you think of The Woody

02:26:44.090 –> 02:26:47.850
Woodpecker Show? Love this show. Absolutely love

02:26:47.850 –> 02:26:52.989
it. Just some quick notes here. In 2023, MeTV

02:26:52.989 –> 02:26:55.889
acquired the broadcast rights to all of Walter

02:26:55.889 –> 02:27:01.590
Lance’s cartoons from 1934 to 1972 to air The

02:27:01.590 –> 02:27:07.090
Woody Woodpecker Show on Saturday mornings. uh

02:27:07.090 –> 02:27:11.510
so yeah that’s where you can see it but uh no

02:27:11.510 –> 02:27:14.569
growing up oh man seeing woody woodpecker and

02:27:14.569 –> 02:27:17.909
chili willy and all the all the woody chili willy

02:27:17.909 –> 02:27:20.870
is the only person the only penguin the only

02:27:20.870 –> 02:27:25.610
character out of all the other characters that

02:27:25.610 –> 02:27:27.969
woody woodpecker hung out with he’s the only

02:27:27.969 –> 02:27:30.829
one that i remember off the top of my head i

02:27:30.829 –> 02:27:34.579
couldn’t tell you And I actually can’t tell you

02:27:34.579 –> 02:27:39.139
because they don’t. The Wikipedia article starts

02:27:39.139 –> 02:27:42.000
with the history, the episodes, and then the

02:27:42.000 –> 02:27:45.399
season breakdown. And then the broadcast history,

02:27:45.559 –> 02:27:49.139
the home media, and the references. So it doesn’t

02:27:49.139 –> 02:27:52.840
even list characters or voice actors on the actual

02:27:52.840 –> 02:28:00.450
Wikipedia. Anyway, but Woody Woodpecker. Absolutely

02:28:00.450 –> 02:28:02.670
love Woody Woodpecker. I loved it as a kid. I

02:28:02.670 –> 02:28:04.850
love it as an adult. I’m going to have to go

02:28:04.850 –> 02:28:08.750
watch some episodes on YouTube, apparently. No,

02:28:08.870 –> 02:28:13.170
it’s so fun. Glad it’s on the countdown. And

02:28:13.170 –> 02:28:18.450
yeah, number 76. Yeah, it’s definitely interesting

02:28:18.450 –> 02:28:21.450
to see that we’ve gone all the way back in the

02:28:21.450 –> 02:28:25.270
50s here just right at the end. And there’s been

02:28:25.270 –> 02:28:28.520
a lot of different voices of Woody. the woodpecker

02:28:28.520 –> 02:28:30.860
over the years. Most recently, Eric Bauza has

02:28:30.860 –> 02:28:33.620
been doing it, but Billy West has voiced him

02:28:33.620 –> 02:28:36.879
over the years. And then originally some, some

02:28:36.879 –> 02:28:39.500
female, I mean, Mel Blanc did it for a second,

02:28:39.540 –> 02:28:42.239
but Grace Stafford was a female that had did

02:28:42.239 –> 02:28:45.979
his voice for a while as well. So definitely

02:28:45.979 –> 02:28:48.379
interesting to see one of the classic characters

02:28:48.379 –> 02:28:50.200
come here. Well, you guys kind of, I’m gonna

02:28:50.200 –> 02:28:52.200
give you guys a chance to react to the today’s.

02:28:52.909 –> 02:28:55.129
countdown overall but i’m going to give you like

02:28:55.129 –> 02:28:57.149
i normally do just a quick breakdown of the 25

02:28:57.149 –> 02:29:00.709
that we’ve revealed so far so from a decade standpoint

02:29:00.709 –> 02:29:06.010
we had one from the 50s three from the 60s one

02:29:06.010 –> 02:29:11.049
from the 70s eight from the 80s three from the

02:29:11.049 –> 02:29:15.530
90s five from the 2000s and four from the last

02:29:15.530 –> 02:29:20.430
15 years so right now 80s reign supreme And then

02:29:20.430 –> 02:29:23.510
the 2000s and the pre -1980s coming in next.

02:29:24.090 –> 02:29:30.030
From a network standpoint and a channel standpoint,

02:29:30.190 –> 02:29:32.329
so far the channel that is reigning supreme is

02:29:32.329 –> 02:29:35.309
ABC with five. Then we have Nickelodeon with

02:29:35.309 –> 02:29:37.950
four. Then we dropped down to NBC and Cartoon

02:29:37.950 –> 02:29:39.870
Network with two. We did have four shows that

02:29:39.870 –> 02:29:42.309
were syndicated. From a production company right

02:29:42.309 –> 02:29:44.569
now, it’s tied at the top with Marvel and Hanna

02:29:44.569 –> 02:29:47.579
-Barbera, each with three. Nickelodeon and Warner

02:29:47.579 –> 02:29:49.659
Brothers or Nickelodeon also has three and then

02:29:49.659 –> 02:29:52.639
Warner Brothers and Disney each have two. So

02:29:52.639 –> 02:29:55.940
Steve, overall thoughts so far on this set of

02:29:55.940 –> 02:29:58.559
25, what is your biggest surprise or how do you

02:29:58.559 –> 02:30:01.139
think things are looking so far? Honestly, I’m

02:30:01.139 –> 02:30:06.540
kind of surprised at the sheer change in some

02:30:06.540 –> 02:30:09.799
of their numbering. You know, probably the biggest

02:30:09.799 –> 02:30:14.260
upset was Speed Racer coming from like 349 to

02:30:14.260 –> 02:30:19.639
100. That to me is insane, or 166 to 94 for Top

02:30:19.639 –> 02:30:23.979
Cat, or 143 to 88 for Dragon Ball, 289 to 84

02:30:23.979 –> 02:30:28.840
for Rocko. Those, honestly, are probably the

02:30:28.840 –> 02:30:34.239
biggest, like, wow. Because they didn’t even

02:30:34.239 –> 02:30:36.540
contend last time, and this time they made it.

02:30:36.760 –> 02:30:40.760
And so it makes me wonder, between that and the

02:30:40.760 –> 02:30:43.459
new shows, or the ones that have ranked in a

02:30:43.459 –> 02:30:46.459
slightly different positioning, this list compared

02:30:46.459 –> 02:30:50.280
to the previous one there’s so much different

02:30:50.280 –> 02:30:54.760
already because like I actually went through

02:30:54.760 –> 02:30:58.600
the website to try and figure out okay what were

02:30:58.600 –> 02:31:03.579
our 100 in one list and so I dumped all of the

02:31:03.579 –> 02:31:06.860
the pages the four pages into like chat GPT and

02:31:06.860 –> 02:31:08.579
had it like all right just put them in numerical

02:31:08.579 –> 02:31:11.479
order again and based on you know the points

02:31:11.479 –> 02:31:16.770
and I was like, Holy crap. There’s like a bunch

02:31:16.770 –> 02:31:20.770
of stuff we haven’t even gotten to yet. And yeah,

02:31:20.950 –> 02:31:26.790
I’m, I’m, I’m very intrigued by what’s coming

02:31:26.790 –> 02:31:30.629
down the pipe. Yeah. I’m worried about what’s

02:31:30.629 –> 02:31:34.350
coming down the pipe. Because we know that there’s

02:31:34.350 –> 02:31:37.590
like 20, whatever I said last time, 27 shows

02:31:37.590 –> 02:31:39.329
that are going to drop out altogether, but nobody

02:31:39.329 –> 02:31:42.969
knows which those are. So it’s like, you know,

02:31:42.989 –> 02:31:45.090
outside of a couple that we revealed in the intro

02:31:45.090 –> 02:31:47.329
episode, you know, you don’t know which 27 are

02:31:47.329 –> 02:31:48.930
not going to appear at all. And you may not for

02:31:48.930 –> 02:31:51.510
a while. Makes it kind of interesting. Yeah.

02:31:51.510 –> 02:31:54.569
So I’m a little worried. Yeah, I get why. So

02:31:54.569 –> 02:31:57.889
also today we’ve had eight of the shows that

02:31:57.889 –> 02:32:01.030
climbed up into the rankings. So eight that were

02:32:01.030 –> 02:32:03.149
previously voted on, like Steve just read off

02:32:03.149 –> 02:32:05.309
a bunch of them, but eight that climbed up enough

02:32:05.309 –> 02:32:07.850
to just make it in here now. We will only have

02:32:07.850 –> 02:32:09.469
seven more the entire rest of the countdown.

02:32:10.239 –> 02:32:12.559
So the majority of those have already happened

02:32:12.559 –> 02:32:15.260
right here today. And then we had four shows

02:32:15.260 –> 02:32:17.920
today that just weren’t eligible to be ranked

02:32:17.920 –> 02:32:20.440
that made their list with X -Men 97, Transformers

02:32:20.440 –> 02:32:23.000
Prime, The Legend of Korra, and Invincible. So

02:32:23.000 –> 02:32:25.760
those were also newcomers. So that makes for

02:32:25.760 –> 02:32:28.920
12 out of this 25 that we didn’t talk about 15

02:32:28.920 –> 02:32:32.559
years ago. So that’s half of the list that we’ve

02:32:32.559 –> 02:32:36.809
covered today was new. Definitely intriguing.

02:32:37.010 –> 02:32:38.790
Mike, what are some of your overall thoughts?

02:32:38.989 –> 02:32:41.809
Oh, boy. Like I said, folks, at the beginning,

02:32:41.909 –> 02:32:43.850
and I’m going to say it almost every episode,

02:32:44.090 –> 02:32:49.889
it’s a slobber knocker. We’ve only had five shows

02:32:49.889 –> 02:32:54.129
that their movement was within 10. So Robotech

02:32:54.129 –> 02:32:57.590
was just a couple off. We had Recess, which was

02:32:57.590 –> 02:33:01.409
10 off. Gem was six off. Batman, the Brave and

02:33:01.409 –> 02:33:02.969
the Bold and the Woody the Woodpecker show were

02:33:02.969 –> 02:33:05.739
both eight off. So those are as close as we came

02:33:05.739 –> 02:33:08.780
to like matching what we had last time. But again,

02:33:08.899 –> 02:33:11.360
like I said, look at the difference, look at

02:33:11.360 –> 02:33:14.180
the difference in the 15 years, 15 years ago,

02:33:14.260 –> 02:33:19.379
we had a completely. And again, if we can get

02:33:19.379 –> 02:33:22.540
dirt on here, hopefully one of these episodes,

02:33:22.780 –> 02:33:26.760
we’re going to try to get him on here. He said,

02:33:26.860 –> 02:33:29.120
cause I listened to his episodes that he was

02:33:29.120 –> 02:33:32.079
on 15 years ago. If you imagine, if you guys

02:33:32.079 –> 02:33:34.649
did this differently, if you did, the numbering

02:33:34.649 –> 02:33:36.709
differently or if you did this or did that or

02:33:36.709 –> 02:33:40.250
whatever we’re doing it differently this time

02:33:40.250 –> 02:33:47.110
and instead of doing the 20 181 80 to 60 we’re

02:33:47.110 –> 02:33:51.170
doing it 25 entries at a time listening to that

02:33:51.170 –> 02:33:55.760
181 and hearing us go through this now with the

02:33:55.760 –> 02:34:00.700
25 it’s so much different i know people do talk

02:34:00.700 –> 02:34:02.700
about like doing it different like doing the

02:34:02.700 –> 02:34:04.500
median or doing the average ranking and things

02:34:04.500 –> 02:34:06.239
of that nature well i did pressure test that

02:34:06.239 –> 02:34:07.959
against a lot of different sources online and

02:34:07.959 –> 02:34:10.399
did some research and talked to chat gpt and

02:34:10.399 –> 02:34:12.420
they do say that the way that we are doing it

02:34:12.420 –> 02:34:15.600
is probably the best way to go about it um from

02:34:15.600 –> 02:34:18.899
a consensus standpoint um just because otherwise

02:34:18.899 –> 02:34:21.159
you have to get real creative because if if we

02:34:21.159 –> 02:34:23.719
went just on like how the average ranking or

02:34:23.719 –> 02:34:27.600
something like that, it really skews stuff that

02:34:27.600 –> 02:34:29.559
didn’t get voted on as much, but just got voted

02:34:29.559 –> 02:34:32.000
high. And like, there’s some repercussions that

02:34:32.000 –> 02:34:33.600
would make our list completely different that

02:34:33.600 –> 02:34:36.180
I experimented with and I saw what would happen

02:34:36.180 –> 02:34:38.180
if we did that. And I didn’t like the outcome.

02:34:38.360 –> 02:34:42.040
So we trusted what we, what this method that

02:34:42.040 –> 02:34:44.319
we’ve been using. Cause Hey, even he said it

02:34:44.319 –> 02:34:47.629
was the right way to go. yep absolutely so and

02:34:47.629 –> 02:34:51.190
man like just the number the the names on this

02:34:51.190 –> 02:34:56.450
list so far compared to 15 years ago oh boy i

02:34:56.450 –> 02:34:58.690
would say we have a crazy amount of variety so

02:34:58.690 –> 02:35:02.569
far in this 25 uh yeah nobody’s gonna judge us

02:35:02.569 –> 02:35:05.889
on the on the on the variety to this point we

02:35:05.889 –> 02:35:08.250
had three three or four superhero shows we had

02:35:08.250 –> 02:35:11.790
four animes we had five shows from the olden

02:35:11.790 –> 02:35:15.129
days Three or four shows from modern time periods

02:35:15.129 –> 02:35:16.930
were a little, I mean, yes, there was eight shows

02:35:16.930 –> 02:35:19.690
from the 80s. I don’t know if that means that

02:35:19.690 –> 02:35:21.750
we’re not going to have as many 80s shows because

02:35:21.750 –> 02:35:23.389
they’re all falling now, or if it means that

02:35:23.389 –> 02:35:25.129
maybe the 80s shows will do better than we thought

02:35:25.129 –> 02:35:26.969
they were in all of our predictions. We’ll have

02:35:26.969 –> 02:35:30.010
to wait and see, but definitely a variety of

02:35:30.010 –> 02:35:33.049
stuff that fell so far today. But again, like,

02:35:33.170 –> 02:35:35.469
okay, we had eight shows in the 80s. How many?

02:35:35.790 –> 02:35:37.489
You said how many we had in the 90s. What was

02:35:37.489 –> 02:35:40.409
it? Three, four, three. Okay. Only three. Recess,

02:35:40.510 –> 02:35:43.190
Rocko’s, and Freakazoid. That’s it. Right. Okay.

02:35:43.250 –> 02:35:46.149
But you got to understand, folks, for the last

02:35:46.149 –> 02:35:49.489
17 years, if you’ve been listening that long,

02:35:49.629 –> 02:35:52.649
if you’ve come in at some point within those

02:35:52.649 –> 02:35:55.530
17 years, if you’ve listened to anything that

02:35:55.530 –> 02:35:59.829
any of us have done on the GCRN, you know what

02:35:59.829 –> 02:36:04.000
our… tastes are you know what we like you know

02:36:04.000 –> 02:36:08.159
what we do here you know what our biases are

02:36:08.159 –> 02:36:10.680
and we’re not even trying to be biased the list

02:36:10.680 –> 02:36:13.760
is already made the list is already done and

02:36:13.760 –> 02:36:17.639
as optimus solo said he’s the only one that has

02:36:17.639 –> 02:36:19.860
the list steve and i are learning this stuff

02:36:19.860 –> 02:36:23.639
and steve myself and any of any guests that we

02:36:23.639 –> 02:36:27.139
get in future episodes we’re learning this stuff

02:36:27.139 –> 02:36:31.979
as he reveals it so Yeah, we had an 80s heavy

02:36:31.979 –> 02:36:34.620
episode with eight shows this time. We only had

02:36:34.620 –> 02:36:37.260
three 90s shows. Maybe next episode will be five

02:36:37.260 –> 02:36:41.239
90s shows. We don’t know. You never know. But

02:36:41.239 –> 02:36:45.819
it’s one of those things where I think the 90s

02:36:45.819 –> 02:36:49.239
are going to rear their ugly head and we’re going

02:36:49.239 –> 02:36:52.959
to get 90s shows. I think some 2000s cartoons

02:36:52.959 –> 02:36:57.639
are going to show up. I guarantee you more Transformers

02:36:57.639 –> 02:37:01.629
shows are going to show up. I don’t know where.

02:37:01.670 –> 02:37:06.610
I don’t know when. I think they will. Yeah, and

02:37:06.610 –> 02:37:08.309
some stuff is going to show up sooner rather

02:37:08.309 –> 02:37:11.149
than later. So just a tease for next week’s episode.

02:37:11.489 –> 02:37:16.229
In our 75 through 51 segment, we will see two

02:37:16.229 –> 02:37:20.670
people’s number one overall picks fall in the

02:37:20.670 –> 02:37:25.010
75 through the 51 range. So just have to tune

02:37:25.010 –> 02:37:30.799
in to see which two those shows are. Mike? get

02:37:30.799 –> 02:37:33.899
us out of here yep we’re gonna get the heck out

02:37:33.899 –> 02:37:37.239
of here folks all right toonsters as always we

02:37:37.239 –> 02:37:39.739
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